Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Maybe this is one of those things it would have been better not to know

Jim Fallon is a neuroscientist who has studied the brains of psychopaths for 20 years. His mother revealed to him that he had some pretty kooky relatives, himself, including a blood-tie to suspected axe-murderess, Lizzie Borden. So, Dr. Fallon began doing scans of his family’s brains, including his own. Whoops! (Parts 2 and 3 here and here).

2 comments:

RebeccaH said...

Attorney Steven Greenberg said that Dugan was not criminally insane. He knew right from wrong. But he was incapable of making the right choices.

Sorry, I don't buy this kind of defense. If you are capable of understanding right from wrong, then you are not incapable of making a choice. That's just new agey bullship "science".

Minicapt said...

MAybe he's like a duck; does he float?

Cheers