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Fraud allegations fly in dispute over brain-scanning tech made famous on Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’
January 8, 2021 at 9:10 am
Neuroscientist Larry Farwell doesn’t read minds, but he can usually catch a liar.
For decades, Farwell refined and promoted a system that measures brainwaves to see if someone recalls a specific piece of information. Using sensors set in a headband and visual prompts flashed on a screen, the Seattle-area scientist contends he can show whether, say, a murder suspect has been at a crime scene.
Farwell imagines a day when brain fingerprinting is standard practice in criminal investigations and counter-terror operations. It’s a dream Farwell effuses about even as he’s locked in a legal nightmare.
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Levi Pulkkinen is an independent journalist based in Seattle. His work appears in U.S. News & World Report, The Guardian, Ozy, and select regional publications, and on the wall of at least one brewery bathroom. He previously served as senior editor at SeattlePI.
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