Apart from the populistic BS that the magazines blow all things neuroscience up to, the machine learning technique behind these kinds of studies are actually ve

Apart from the populistic BS that the magazines blow all things neuroscience up to, the machine learning technique behind these kinds of studies are actually very clever (and a lot more robust than most "traditional" fMRI findings that produce headlines like "scientists discovered brain area causing teenage angst". If you want a former neuroscientist ranting about bad fMRI research for a page or so, let me know :)