A century ago, there was no telling how advance medicine would be or how the capabilities of technology would advance. Many people have felt as though the quick advancement could cause a lot more damage than good and although I can agree, I don't think this would apply for neuroimaging. Neuroimaging is a technology that could potentially grow into a huge part of our legal system and even now it is moving forward at a rapid pace and continuing to develop. We have made various discoveries and we have created ways to not only make our lives much easier but also to create reliable detections that could serve us in the courtroom. However, many argue that these advance technologies may not be as reliable as we would hope, which raises a big concern
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How can you trust that someone’s word is entirely true? Testimonies are not always accurate and you can’t always trust someone simply because they placed their hand on the word of God and promised not to lie. As much as I’d like to believe that we live in a world where everyone is completely honest 100% of the time it is just not that way or we wouldn’t have to discuss further advancements for lie detections test. We have used testimonial evidence for centuries even though sometimes they can be 0% accurate so why should we not use something that could have a high potential of reliability? When Paul Root Wolpe discussed conventional polygraph test, he stated that there are certain limitations but that there were ways to overcome them. Many of the studies that these additional detection test have been used on have been unsuccessful but that doesn’t mean that we should lose all hope. For example, the fMRI was tested in a situation where all of those that were being tested where healthy controls. We will never be able to advance fMRI technology if we don’t allow for it to be used on a trial basis. If we are constantly using it on people who don’t have health issues we will never be able to work through the things that need to be fixed within this
How can you trust that someone’s word is entirely true? Testimonies are not always accurate and you can’t always trust someone simply because they placed their hand on the word of God and promised not to lie. As much as I’d like to believe that we live in a world where everyone is completely honest 100% of the time it is just not that way or we wouldn’t have to discuss further advancements for lie detections test. We have used testimonial evidence for centuries even though sometimes they can be 0% accurate so why should we not use something that could have a high potential of reliability? When Paul Root Wolpe discussed conventional polygraph test, he stated that there are certain limitations but that there were ways to overcome them. Many of the studies that these additional detection test have been used on have been unsuccessful but that doesn’t mean that we should lose all hope. For example, the fMRI was tested in a situation where all of those that were being tested where healthy controls. We will never be able to advance fMRI technology if we don’t allow for it to be used on a trial basis. If we are constantly using it on people who don’t have health issues we will never be able to work through the things that need to be fixed within this