The ultimate Presidential debate setting is an fMRI lab
There's a book of speculative fiction by James Halperin titled The Truth Machine that explored the possibility of an affordable absolutely accurate lie detector. The book has it's flaws (all books written to make a point instead of tell a story has flaws) but it was correct in this: the wide-spread ability to flawlessly detect lies whose shake human society to its roots.
Not to mention eliminate all advertising.
All of it.
Anyway…
Brain Scan Shows Differences in Truth, Lying
Mon Nov 29, 2004 02:17 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brain scans show that the brains of people who are lying look very different from those of people who are telling the truth, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
The study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI, not only sheds light on what goes on when people lie but may also provide new technology for lie-detecting, the researchers said.
"There may be unique areas in the brain involved in deception that can be measured with fMRI," said Dr. Scott Faro, director of the Functional Brain Imaging Center at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
"There may be unique areas in the brain involved in truth-telling," Faro added at a news conference.
