Sunday, August 02, 2009
'The Neuro Revolution' - nonsense
On Lynch's new book, we have Scientific American, and probably others, saying "Imagine a technology that can determine—with 100 percent accuracy—when a crime suspect is lying. etc etc... As Zack Lynch explains in The Neuro Revolution, these wonders and many others may soon become mainstream, thanks to advances in brain science".
IMO: I've read Lynch's Corante blog for years and quite enjoyed it. But I have to say, that resume is total nonsense, and if it fairly represents the book, then so is the book. Some would like us to believe such spin, such as the dodgy banks, dubious financial traders and the sort of cops Pres. Obama does not like, but I do not. There is no prospect whatever of such a technology. For example, even the most advanced diffusion tensor MRI results give only maps of the way human blood moves in the brain, and such results are not acceptable or even understandible as evidence in a lynch law court. Certainly fMRI is a useful tool but to go beyond that to the point suggested by SciAm, we cannot do. Now we have consistently had the Press behaving like this, and it is disgraceful.
IMO: I've read Lynch's Corante blog for years and quite enjoyed it. But I have to say, that resume is total nonsense, and if it fairly represents the book, then so is the book. Some would like us to believe such spin, such as the dodgy banks, dubious financial traders and the sort of cops Pres. Obama does not like, but I do not. There is no prospect whatever of such a technology. For example, even the most advanced diffusion tensor MRI results give only maps of the way human blood moves in the brain, and such results are not acceptable or even understandible as evidence in a lynch law court. Certainly fMRI is a useful tool but to go beyond that to the point suggested by SciAm, we cannot do. Now we have consistently had the Press behaving like this, and it is disgraceful.
# posted by uv : 4:45 AM
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