{"id":291,"date":"2009-03-17T06:10:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:10:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:10:33","slug":"admission-of-fmri-lie-detector-evidence-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/admission-of-fmri-lie-detector-evidence-sought\/","title":{"rendered":"Admission of fMRI Lie Detector &#8220;Evidence&#8221; Sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Alexis Madrigal writes for Wired.com about what is reportedly the first attempt to have fMRI lie detector results admitted in court:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense attorneys are for the first time submitting a controversial next-generation lie-detection test as evidence in criminal court.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is used widely in brain research, but hasn&#8217;t been fully tested as a lie-detection method. To be admitted into court, any technique has to be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frye_Standard\">generally accepted<\/a>&#8221; within the scientific community.<\/p>\n<p>The company that did the brain scan, No Lie MRI, claims their test is <a href=\"http:\/\/noliemri.com\/products\/Overview.htm\">over 90 percent accurate<\/a>, but some scientists and lawyers are skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Hank Greely, the head of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford, wrote in an e-mail to Wired.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a title=\"MRI Lie Detection to Get First Day in Court - Alexis Madrigal\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/03\/noliemri.html\" target=\"_blank\">MRI Lie Detection to Get First Day in Court<\/a> for the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Madrigal writes for Wired.com about what is reportedly the first attempt to have fMRI lie detector results admitted in court: Defense attorneys are for the first time submitting a controversial next-generation lie-detection test as evidence in criminal court. In an upcoming juvenile-sex-abuse case in San Diego, the defense is hoping to get an fMRI &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,61,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fmri","7":"tag-bioethics","8":"tag-brain-scan","9":"tag-no-lie-mri","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}