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View the article here | Polygraph.comThe Lie Behind the Lie DetectorDid you know: The consensus view among scientists is that polygraph testing has no scientific basis? The FBI considered the creator of the lie detector test to be a phony and a crackpot? The man who started the CIA's polygraph program thinks that plants can read human thoughts? The foremost polygraph advocate in academia was discredited by a federal judge? A prominent past-president of the American Polygraph Association is a phony Ph.D., and this premier polygraph organization doesn't consider it an ethics problem? The longest polygraph school produces newly minted polygraphers in just 14 weeks -- less than half the time it takes to graduate from a typical barber college? The Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (the erstwhile DoD Polygraph Institute) suppressed a study suggesting that innocent blacks are more likely to fail the polygraph than innocent whites? The researcher who developed the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).