This Why the “Lie Detector” Test is Total B.S.
Conspiracy theorists unite!
I’ve always been fascinated with Polygraph tests and how they work. Well, I’m knee-deep in Antipolygraph.org and it’s chock full of engrossing articles about the origin and the current uses of the modern polygraph test. Take in these gems:
- The Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice found the modern polygraph test to be, “based on an implausible set of assumptions that makes it biased against innocent individuals and easy for guilty persons to defeat using countermeasures…” (Iacono, William G. “Forensic ‘Lie Detection’: Procedures Without Scientific Basis,” Journal of
- The inventor and primary propagator of polygraph technology in the C.I.A. believes that plants experience a wide range of emotions and can read human minds. He gave a plant a polygraph test and drew these conclusions form the results. His name is Cleve Backster. He claims a D.Sc. in Complementary Medicine from Medicina Alternativa (1996). He has managed to turn this into a position at the California Institute for Human Science Graduate School and Research Center, an unaccredited institution founded by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama for the study of “the human being as tridimensional.”
Learn how to beat one and tons of other cool stuff about polygraphs.
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2 opinions for This Why the “Lie Detector” Test is Total B.S.
Tommy
Nov 20, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Make way for The Truth Machine.
shameka
Jun 22, 2008 at 12:48 pm
if the glucose level is too high or too low can it effect the results of the test.
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