Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Are Thoughts Evidence in a Crime When Collected in Brain Mapping?

Imagine that psychologists are scanning a patient’s brain as part of some basic research. As they do so, they stumble across a fleeting thought that their equipment is able to decode: The patient has committed a murder or is thinking of committing one soon. What would the researchers be obliged to do with that information? [...]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/are-thoughts-evidence-in-a-crime-when-collected-in-brain-mapping/

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