From the Gizmodo Blog:
This past June, a judge in the Indian state of Maharashtra convicted a woman of killing her ex-fiance, citing as proof an EEG scan showing “experiential knowledge” of the crime.....The story tells of a woman who lived in the town of Pune, engaged to Man A. One day, she up and runs off to Delhi with Man B. She returns to Pune, meets Man A at a McDonald's, and later on, he dies. Of arsenic poisoning. When the woman was brought in accused of murdering Man A, she denied the allegation. When investigators hooked her up to an EEG and read aloud facts of the crime, however, software interpreting the electrical impulses in her brain told a different story. Says the NYT: "The relevant nooks of her brain where memories are thought to be stored buzzed when the crime was recounted."
Unlike in previous cases, there was little or no corroborative evidence here, but the judge sentenced the woman to life in prison anyway, and went on to write a 9-page lovesong to this particular Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature test, even though it has yet to be "validated by any independent study and reported in a respected scientific journal."
God, you got to love it when the judiciary jumps in bed with the fringe neuro-scientists!
2 comments:
One step away from 'Minority Report' That's some spooky shit Doc - though I think we should all be reactionary and admit 'She, like - had to have poisoned him'
The guy probably deserved poisoning anyways, but this is craziness.
I suppose it just goes to show you that judges the world over should be put down and replaced by clones of myself.
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