Misuse Made Plain: Evaluating Concerns About Neuroscience in National Security

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This commentary is the result of a workshop sponsored by the Stanford Interdisciplinary Group in Neuroscience And Law (SIGNAL), supported by the Stanford Law School Center for Law and the Biosciences.

Notes

1. But 18 states allow polygraphs to be used as evidence if both parties stipulate to their admission. New Mexico is the only state in which polygraphs are presumptively admissible without the parties' stipulation: State v. Dorsey, 88 N.M. 184 (1975).

2. Marks may have excluded that discussion because he suspects that the national security enterprise may not care how well such technologies work. For example, Marks described how military interrogators were unconcerned that the manner in which they used polygraphs could not produce reliable results (Marks 2010, 4).