An article on the www.Time.com website reports on a study that was recently published in the journal Psychophysiology on using the P300 wave as the basis for identifying the presence of guilty knowledge of an event, such as the plans for a terrorist attack; see: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2009131,00.html?iid=tsmodule
Interviews with the authors of the research article show that there is great hope for the procedure (why it might even be better than using a polygraph!) as well as acknowledging that there are a number of kinks to work out. As one indicator of the "validity" of this research, it is receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. That will come as cold comfort to anyone who has seen the movie "The Men Who Stare At Goats" (and even less comfort to those who have read Jon Ronson's book "The Men Who Stare At Goats -- it was decided that the movie would be a feel good comedy even though Ronson's nonfiction book has very definite feel bad components such as how the "First Earth Battalion" helped to train one of the 9/11 hijackers and was related to the remote viewing work by Emory U's Courtney Brown which in turn led to the Heaven's Gate mass suicide; For First Earth Battalion, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion For Courtney Brown, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Brown_%28researcher%29 For Heaven's Gate, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29 When Ronson interviewed Brown about Heaven's Gate, Brown appeared to distance himself from the group. A refrain that Brown used was: "I'm an academic", meaning that he couldn't held responsible for what non-academics did with what he said or promoted. For some reason the phrase "I'm an academic" elicited in my memory the phrase "I'm a professional" used by the kidnappers and criminals in the movie "Man on Fire". Oh, one last feel bad item, the use of Barney the dinosaur's "I Love You" song in torturing Iraqi detainees). -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4053 or send a blank email to leave-4053-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
