Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Retired FBI polygraphers Jack Trimarco and James H. Earle, Ph.D., seem to be at odds over whether John J. Kresnik should have polygraphed Ted Haggard accuser Mike Jones, who says he had a migraine headache at the time and had slept only two hours the night before. Katie Kerwin McCrimmon reports for the Rocky Mountain …
Dave Montero reports for the Rocky Mountain News in an on-line article titled, “Haggard’s sex accuser fails polygraph:” A former male prostitute who accused Colorado Springs pastor Ted Haggard of engaging in gay sex over the course of three years failed a polygraph test administered Friday morning in Denver. The polygrapher, John Kresnik, said the …
Philip Devine, editor of South Africa’s Business Report Online, offers a critical assessment of polygraph “testing” and gives a nod to AntiPolygraph.org in a 3 November 2006 editorial article titled, “Big fat liar”: Big fat liar November 3, 2006 By Philip Devine The use of ‘lie detector’ machines in South Africa is not often something …
On 31 October 2006, AntiPolygraph.org posted the FBI file (736 kb PDF) of William Moulton Marston, the father of the so-called lie detector test; an explanatory note is available on the message board. The popular tech website Slashdot.org has published an announcement of the news submitted by AntiPolygraph.org’s George Maschke, in response to which numerous …
In a must-read feature article titled “Brain on Fire” (30 October 2006, p. C01), Washington Post staff writer Joel Garreau reports on fMRI-based lie detector testing, including a test that he himself underwent at the University of Pennsylvania’s Brain Behavior Center.