Your Mad Scientist - Is This Really Ethical?

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Researchers used memory hacking to get people to recall events that didn't happen. The participants were asked to visualize the event and then set themselves free for a week so they could think about it again. After each visualization, 70% of them said they remembered what had happened. This was done with an ethical protocol in mind - but whether or not it's ethical is another debate.

Our guest on this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is Dr. Julia Shaw, the author of The Memory Illusion, Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.

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