MRI Lie Detection to Get First Day in Court

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Defense attorneys are for the first time submitting a controversial neurological lie-detection test as evidence in U.S. court.
In an upcoming juvenile-sex-abuse case in San Diego, the defense is hoping to get an fMRI scan, which shows brain activity based on oxygen levels, admitted to prove the abuse didn't happen.

The technology is used widely in brain research, but hasn't been fully tested as a lie-detection method. To be admitted into California court, any technique has to be generally accepted within the scientific community.

The company that did the brain scan, No Lie MRI, claims their test is over 90 percent accurate, but some scientists and lawyers are skeptical.

"The studies so far have been very interesting. I think they deserve further research. But the technology is very new, with very little research support, and no studies done in realistic situations," Hank Greely, the head of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford, wrote in an e-mail to Wired.com.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/noliemri.html

Brave new world... I can't see the judge letting this fly.

[JTFrog]

1. Fuck that. MRI's are torture. n/t

[bananas]

2. pseudo-science.

[ddeclue]

3. OH that's some dangerous precedent...

how long till people are forced to give testimony against themselves because the MRI is declared "infallible"???

Doug D.