Telling the Truth

Telling the truth just got more likely! The lawyers, the prosecutors, the judges, even the law professors are running scared! They're headed for another train-wreck with science that will expose their corruption even better than did DNA technology. Soon, they'll have a lot harder time lying people into prison, creating evidence and duping jurors into slapping their guilty-buttons.

How is this coming about? Check out the 8-08 Scientific American, page 18, on functional magnetic resonance lie detection. This technology has been improving since 1998, and now poses such a threat to the conviction machine that the lawyer community is suppressing it directly, and with the help of certain media figures. Two law scholars were hired to denigrate the 20 studies and call for a ban on all non-research use of FMRI lie detection technology.

It turns out that science is jumping ahead because two labs reached a lie-detection rate of over 90% and started selling badly-needed service to a badly-abused citizenry. Plus, the British media didn't help the law's monopoly on truth by getting millions of people involved through three TV broadcasts on the technology proving that several shaky convictions were likely of innocents. While science was achieving a 97% accuracy rate in detecting lies, the legal scholars were busy doing as they do best, erecting straw men, creating false arguments, throwing up barriers, causing delay, advising caution and showcasing nebulous "danger" that science may suffer a "black eye" in pursuing FMRI lie detection technology as a safeguard against the lawyer's accusation-and-conviction machines. The absolute last thing the lawyers want is for their profession of opinion and judgment to be quality checked by science and proof.

Try as hard as I might, I could not uncover any scenarios that would lead to any black eye for science. If the lawyers meant the 97% chance of uncovering a falsely-convicted innocent, and the 3% chance that a guilty culprit may get a favorable line in a media broadcast, then I'm prepared to take that chance!

Looks to me like all the black eyes are going to be on the faces of the law. Then the public will see that FMRI technology is perfect for wiping the smirks off the faces of cops and politicians.

Yes, telling the truth is going to get a whole lot more common, real soon. Anyone wishing to help push this valuable technology along should visit my website, www.jamesbauhaus.org ore, and learn more about it by reading "FMRI Lie Detection = Innocent's lucky day!" the thousands of accusees who forced the authorities to render a trial, complete the jurors, fully 15% of they who were convicted are innocent. This false conviction rate is unacceptable, and the lawyers, prosecutors, judges and cops who are responsible for these atrocities and are concealing them need to start telling the truth.

James Bauhaus