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Correspondence
Nature 392, 221 (19 March 1998) | doi:10.1038/32516
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A pawn in a conspiracy?
George A. Mashour1
- Georgetown University School of Medicine, 3970 Reservoir Road, RB-W225, Washington DC, 20007, USA
Although I appreciate the legitimate bioethical concerns of emerging neurogenetic and neuroimaging technology, I do not believe the slope is quite as slippery as Jean-Pierre Changeux and Denis Le Bihan suggest (see Nature 391, 316; 1998). Neuroimaging hardly seems capable of "invasion of personal liberty, control of behaviour and brainwashing", and the assertion that neuroimaging can "almost read people's thoughts" is scientifically ridiculous and philosophically naive.
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