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...real-world lie detector would have to be "reliable for a specific answer for a specific question from a specific person." And that is something that fMRI may never achieve, says...
...companies like No Lie MRI continue to advertise that they can detect lies with "90% accuracy" and charge close to $5,000 for their services. "There are 30 different peer-reviewed studies out there that prove that we can detect lies with fMRI," says Joel Huizenga, the CEO of No Lie MRI, who declined to provide citations for those studies. (Neither of the two scientists on the company's scientific board responded to requests for comment for this article.) Huizenga says he has worked with cases involving "arson, murder and incest" but did not give further details...
...unclear what purpose reports from No Lie MRI or similar companies serve in such cases, since they have not been found reliable enough to be used in court. In March, an attorney for the defendant in a San Diego child-custody case attempted to introduce a polygraph test and a report from No Lie MRI to prove his client's innocence. It might have been the first time fMRI lie detection was allowed in a court proceeding, had the county prosecutor's office not objected to it and sought the assistance of Hank Greely, director of the Stanford Center...
...defense eventually decided not to present the fMRI data. As it was a civil case, the judge ordered the data to be sealed. But a motion to unseal some of the proceedings will be heard on July 24, when the judge could decide to release, among other things, No Lie MRI's report...
...unlikely that No Lie MRI will give up anytime soon - the company claims that the potential market for its technology could exceed $3.6 billion. While that figure seems exaggerated given legal safeguards against using polygraphs, Greely estimates that if fMRI lie detection became admissible in court, the industry could easily be worth more than a billion dollars per year. (See pictures from a wildlife forensics...