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The dubious rise of neurolaw

From Popular Mechanics, a look at how brain scans could invade your private life. We're prejudiced, now what? Scientists now tell us bias toward others may be innate, but that doesn't mean we have to behave like Bill O'Reilly. A review of In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas by Theodore Dalrymple. Wendy Kaminer on the return of the thought police: "Hate crime" legislation is an assault on civil liberties. It was all my brain’s fault: An article on the dubious rise of neurolaw. From The New Yorker, dangerous minds: Malcolm Gladwell on criminal profiling made easy. The dog ate my evidence: What happens when the government can't re-create the case against you?