Brain scan lie detection knocks on the court doors

[image error]Wired Science interviews a professional observer in the most important legal hearing for the use fMRI brain scan 'lie detection' technology yet to come to court.

The observer was Owen Jones, a professor of law and biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, and the hearing was over the scientific status of 'lie detection' scans done by commercial company Cephos and are been touted by the defence in a case of someone accused of defrauding medical insurance in the US.

The debate is over...