At 1:13 AM -0500 12/11/00, Stephen Black wrote:
>The US TV investigative journalism programme _60 Minutes_ tonight
>did a report on a technique called "Brain fingerprinting" which
>purports to identify criminals by analyzing their brain waves.
>It sounded like classic neuroquackery to me, especially when they
>claimed that the brain records everything and that they've
>developed a method for detecting information that it contains.
Even the title is misleading, since (unlike fingerprinting, it is _not_ a
means of _identifying_ an individual.
What it really is is a minor rehash of lie detecting, with all the usual
problems.
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