I have been attending the annual conference of the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation this week. Among the presentations was one by Dr. J. Randall Price on the subject of brain scans. He reaffirmed what I have heard from other speakers. Those color-enhanced pictures that defense experts use to try to convince jurors that the defendant's "broken brain" made him do it are pretty much junk science. The colors are tweaked for dramatic effect rather than to actually show anything that really has to do with a person's free will and capacity to obey the law. Some call this color tweaking "brain porn." Interesting term.