It was n’t supposed to fall out — not yet at least — but it did : This retiring June , a judge in the Amerindic state of Maharashtra convicted a char of killing her ex - fiance , citing as cogent evidence an EEG scan demonstrate “ existential cognition ” of the crime . Many people do think there ’s something to this , that an EEG or MRI scan of the noggin can picture lies and truth if read correctly , but in the US it ’s agreed that this is data-based science at honorable , and snake - oil colour sales at worst . The tale tells of a woman who be in the town of Pune , pursue to Man A. One twenty-four hour period , she up and runs off to Delhi with Man B. She generate to Pune , meets Man A at a McDonald ’s , and later on , he dies . Of arsenic poisoning . When the cleaning lady was brought in charge of off Man A , she denied the allegation . When investigators hooked her up to an EEG and read aloud fact of the crime , however , software render the electrical impulses in her brain told a different narration . say the NYT : “ The relevant nook of her genius where memory are thought to be hive away buzzed when the crime was recount . ” Unlike in old case , there was trivial or no corroborative grounds here , but the judge doom the charwoman to life in prison anyway , and pass away 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 report and describe in a well-thought-of scientific journal . ” ( Peer review , who needs it ? ) The US is leading this burgeoning field of study , but the only time it ’s used in courtroom is when the accused pay to have a work performed as evidence of innocence . The New Yorker ranan amazing unmasking on this funny businessa year ago , and it ’s still well worth the read . What happens in an Amerindic courtroom does n’t set up precedent in the US , but this engineering sure as shooting is n’t go to go aside , so it ’s significant either to prevail it out as imitation scientific discipline , or reduce up the applied methodology quickly , so that we can all get on to the business of reading each others ’ psyche in court . Course then we ’d really start drink down each other . [ New York Times ]
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