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Skepticism, Censorship And The Polygraph
George W. Maschke writes "Paul M. Menges, the federal polygraph examiner who teaches the countermeasure course at the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute, has written an article in the American Polygraph Association's quarterly journal, Polygraph, in which he calls for the criminalization of public speech about polygraph countermeasures (methods for passing or beating a polygraph examination). His proposal would ban books like AntiPolygraph.org's popular free e-book, The Lie Behind the Lie Detector. I have written a formal response to Mr. Menges' commentary."
Too bad they can't ban my built-in fascism detector. It's going off right now.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
I remember seeing (in News of the Weird, I think) about some local cop that was taking criminals and putting their hands on a copy machine and claiming that it was a polygraph. He loaded the paper try with pages with "He's Lying" pre-printed on them. He'd ask you a question, hit the copy button, and there would be a page with an image of your hand and "He's Lying" written on it.
He apparently got a few confessions this way, but I believe they were overturned.
Anyways, let's not pretend that there's anything beyond Gilligan's Island science by calling them "polygraphs". They're lie detectors.
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
Now you fucking tell me. I just got out after serving 2 of a 3 year sentence. All this "beat the polygraph HOWTO" stuff is great, but I could have used a simple PICTURE of one. I thought it looked like a copy machine, but I wasn't sure.