To Fell the Truth
Matt Fiore writes for the James Randi Educational Foundation’s Swift blog on how, despite popular perceptions, the pseudoscience of polygraphy has not truly been banished from American courtrooms.
Monthly archives: December, 2009
Will Shetterly Discusses His Experience with the Polygraph
In “Confessions of a Detected Liar,” Novelist and short story writer Will Shetterly relates the story of how he twice failed polygraph “tests” despite telling the truth. See also the comments left by polygraph operator Louis Rovner of Los Angeles attempting to rationalize away the polygraph’s error and mischaracterizing the findings of the National Academy …
Britain’s Best-Known Lie Detector Operator, Bruce Burgess, Is a Liar
British polygraph operator Bruce Burgess, who conducts lie detector tests for tawdry TV talk shows in the UK, has been caught attempting to lie his way out of a speeding ticket by falsely claiming that he was not the driver. According to the UK Press Association, Burgess has been given a suspended 24-week prison sentence, …
District Attorney Finds No Evidence Against North Carolina’s Top Polygraph Operator
Jon Ostendorff reports for the Asheville Citizen-Times that North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Chris Smith, who supervises the Bureau’s polygraph unit, will not be criminally prosecuted for allegedly assaulting a suspect he had polygraphed. Although not specifically mentioned in the article, it would appear that no video recording was made of the …