Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
On Wednesday, 18 June 2008, both Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who claims that in 1999 he performed oral sex on, and used cocaine with, then Illinois legislator Barack Obama and Dan Parisi’s WhiteHouse.com, which arranged for a polygraph examination of Mr. Sinclair, will be holding press conferences at the National Press Club in Washington, …
In the 5 June 2008 issue (10 mb PDF) of the Fort Jackson Leader, Mike Glasch reports on current research at the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment: DACA researchers developing high-tech ways to detect deception Mike A. Glasch Leader Staff Tubes strapped across the chest, sensors clipped to the fingertips and an inflated blood pressure …
Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that law enforcement officers in the state can be compelled to submit to lie detector “testing” in the course of internal investigations. John R. Ellement reports for the Boston Globe: BOSTON — Saying public confidence in law enforcement must be protected, the state’s high court today ruled that police …
In “Polygraphically Perverse,” former television show host Dick Cavett continues the story he began in his previous blog entry and explains how he stumped the polygraph operator that F. Lee Bailey brought on his show.
Some two weeks after MSNBC investigative reporter Bill Dedman broke the story of the Department of Defense’s new hand-held lie detector, formally dubbed the “Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System” (PCASS), Mike A. Glasch who writes for the weekly Reader, the official newspaper of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, picked up on the story in the 24 …
Writing on his New York Times blog, former television show host Dick Cavett recounts the story of the time F. Lee Bailey appeared on his show to demonstrate how the polygraph works. Only it didn’t. Cavett tantalizingly reveals that a follow-up blog entry will be titled, “The Secret of How I Beat the Infernal Machine.”
Kat Richardson reports for The Dartmouth on Judge Jed S. Rakoff’s remarks at his recent William H. Timber ‘37 Lecture, which was co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies faculty and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association. Excerpt: Science and the law are “uncomfortable” but inevitable “bedfellows,” Jed Rakoff, a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of …
TMZ.com lampoons Dr. Phil McGraw’s use of polygraphs and tawdry topics to boost ratings, comparing his daytime television talk show with the Fox network’s game show, The Moment of Truth. In point of fact, however, the Dr. Phil show’s shameless use of lie detectors as a ratings gimmick predates The Moment of Truth and has …
Rob Shmerling of Harvard Health Publications comments on recent lie detection research using novel indices, as well on traditional polygraphy:
AntiPolygraph.org’s George Maschke addresses members of the U.S. armed forces who are being asked to rely on DoD’s new hand-held lie detector, the “Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System” (PCASS): For discussion of the PCASS, see Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System: U.S. Deploys Hand-Held Lie Detector and How to Beat the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System …