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Report: spies need to stay on top of neuorscience research
arstechnica.com — The National Research Council is publishing a report, Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies, on the need for the intelligence community to develop better institutional awareness of neuroscience research as a matter of national security.
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- chrisbostero, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2psychopharmacology still has a long way to go, oh, did I mean to say neuroscience and neuropsychology really are still fumbling in the dark?
- FlamingWombat, on 08/14/2008, -2/+6Spy sappin mah brain!
- dsmx, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Now that would be a a good sapper for the inevitable spy update.
- BeefBaron, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1A perfect excuse for a spy achievement called "Brain Drain".
- dsmx, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Now that would be a a good sapper for the inevitable spy update.
- BXRWXR, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4Sometimes they just need to develop a better institutional awareness of intelligence.
/WMDs - leerayIG88, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Brraiiinnss...Brraiiinnss
- maulerfilms, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2So what? They're going to start scanning people's brains on their way into the country on the off chance they have "terrorist brainwaves"?
- AndrewMoyer, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0Yeah, and if you don't give them the password, they can hold it for an indefinite period of time and give private third parties access to it at their discretion.
- astronomical, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0So what? If it could be done accurately, would it be a "bad thing" to stop terrorist attacks? I guarantee you any ones brain acts a little different knowing they're boarding a jet to kill thousands along with them self. That doesnt mean you arrest them for some future crime, it just means you stop mindless mass murder.
- TheDHC, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2spah 'round here..
- Frejesal, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5I randomly got the image of a bunch of airport security dudes covertly scanning my brain from afar.
Then Leroy Jenkins running up saying "LET'S DO THIS CHUMPS! LEEEROY JENKIIIINS" and firing a brain probe into my skull. - Metasquares, on 08/14/2008, -1/+1Wow, this is the first time I've ever felt that there was a justifiable reason to falsify research.
- shark72, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1First step in staying on top of it: learning how to SPELL it correctly!
- dafragsta, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6Yeah, Uncle Sam here. You're in a police state now. If you have something cool, you can bet your ass I'm here to regulate it. I am big government after all, and if I find something REALLY cool, I'm going to make sure you can't tell anyone about it in the name of national security, all the while, I'll subversively use that technology against you and your friends.
The federal government needs to dissolved and rebuilt from the ground up. The world will not end, but it'll put an end to all this cloak and dagger ***** that goes on domestically. - eggballs, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2Why is my first thought The Manchurian Candidate?
- jaymzdean, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1"I know what you're thinking and you're under arrest. Tazer! Tazer! 3...2...1"
- JBaker68, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0Anyone else think that was 4chan's logo at first glance?
- omgTHEPATRIOTS, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2They should check out the degenerate brain structures of right wing whackjobs, they'd be astonished to find how many of them have the same sort of neural pathways since they have a complete inability to process complex and large amounts of information!
- norman619, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1This is cute. I'm willing to bet the intelligence agencies have been watching the developments in this field for a while. Hell, they may have pioneered and/or funded some of it.
- auricomnet, on 08/14/2008, -2/+1Go CogSci/NeuroSci @ UCSD! Best Neuroscience school in the nation.
- grneye53, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1that's how they came up with "L.S.D." and look where that led !
- kaelyiesta, on 08/14/2008, -1/+2Buried as innacurate for the second sentence:
"The intelligence community's abject failure when it came to the matter of Iraq and WMDs illustrates that point rather effectively[...]"
Here is what Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst had to say about the intelligence reports that concluded iraq was developing nuclear warheads and other such weapons.
"CIA analysts were involved in a knockdown, drag-out argument with the Pentagon on this very point. Most of the nuclear engineers at the CIA, and virtually all scientists at U.S. government laboratories and the International Atomic Energy Agency, found no reliable evidence that Iraq had restarted its nuclear weapons program."
Source: alternet.org/waroniraq/16283
The neoconservative element in our government pushed and pushed for cherry picked reports, installing members of PNAC and affiliates(Rumsfeld) to head up the report of threat assessment (who had been drooling over controlling iraq before Clinton by the way) after the first commission report and the second didn't bring back answers they wanted to hear. Rumsfeld then returned with answers the pentagon wanted. Iraq dangerous. Must attack. We want oil!
Our intelligence community was gagged. It was not a failure of ability, it was a failure of moral conscience. - Frankyfan3, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0http://digg.com/politics/The_Seattle_Hempfest_XVII ...
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