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Scientists trying to read your mind?

by Rebecca on March 5, 2007

in fMRI

Did anyone else see this article? I came across it on msnbc.com – “Scientists Try to Predict Intentions: using brain scans to read minds before thoughts turn into actions” (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17464320/)
I haven’t read anything Dr. Haynes has published in peer-reviewed journals on the topic (I’ll see what I can find) but this seems [...]

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Scientific Literacy

by Rebecca on February 19, 2007

in Science

I missed “Just Science” week by a couple of weeks, so here is my post to try to make up for it:
I have recently been reading a book called “Junk Science” by Dan Agin, who describes himself as a neuroscientist and biophysicist. The book discusses the many ways that legitimate science is twisted/altered/slanted so [...]

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