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Nature 428, 692-694 (15 April 2004) | doi:10.1038/428692a

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The truth about lying

Jonathan Knight1

  1. Jonathan Knight writes for Nature from San Francisco.

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Crooks, terrorists and liars can be hard to spot. But some researchers hope that scanning brains, faces or voices might reveal deceivers. Jonathan Knight looks at lie-detection technology, and wonders who is being fooled.

When talk-show hosts and death-row inmates come knocking on his door, neuroscientist Lawrence Farwell welcomes both with open arms. Farwell is the inventor of a brain fingerprinting machine, and since he began consulting in high-profile murder cases four years ago, he has found no shortage of publicity for his technique.

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