Showing posts with label neuroimagery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neuroimagery. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Legalize Veritaserum: A Defense of the Use of Neuroimagery in Lie Detection


Like the rest of the country’s coolest kids in high school, I dedicated what some would call an “unhealthy” amount of time to memorizing minute details about the Harry Potter universe.  Among my favorite of J.K. Rowling’s plot-hole-fillers du jour was a potion known as veritaserum, which would compel its drinker to tell truths, and only truths.