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Neuroscientists may wish to remain above the fray. But, when policy-makers and judges are deciding on matters that could be informed by their research, neuroscientists must lend their voices to the discussion.
A 2022 paper reported a caveat about brain–behavior relationships emerging from neuroimaging data, which then unintentionally cast an entire field and a neuroscientific method into doubt… again.