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Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit

Posted by timothy on from the slapp-ing-them-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Swedish newspaper DN reports that the Israeli company Nemesysco has sent letters to researchers at the University of Stockholm, threatening legal action if they do not stop publishing findings (Google translation). An article called 'Charlatanry in forensic speech science: A problem to be taken seriously' was pulled by the publisher after threats of a libel lawsuit." Online translations can be a little wonky; if your Swedish is as bad as mine, this English-language article describes the situation well.

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  1. Presumably, all the Swedish researchers need by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 5, Funny

    to refute this libel claim, is a lie detector test :-)

    Oh wait...

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  2. Underlying technology by RDW · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's probably because the scientists' bullshit detector infringed on Nemesysco's patents.

  3. Lie detectors are ruining the Torture Industry! by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Funny

    If lie detectors *really* worked, we wouldn't have to torture so many people, would we? We'd just hook them up to the lie detector, and ask them questions, like, "Will the LHC discover the Higgs boson?", and then we would know if they were guilty or not.

    The US could close down Guantanamo in a fortnight.

    But then the Torture Industry would need a bailout.

    Or maybe the Torture Industry should just get a cut of every lie detector sold?

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  4. Re:How it works... by sremick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Presumably a let down to know she was choosing cardigans whilst you got off.

    That's ok, I was on the other end reading Slashdot. So we're even.