Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
The Associated Press reports in “Convicted sex offenders will take polygraph tests” published 18 November 2006 by the Anchorage Daily News: FAIRBANKS — Convicted sex offenders in Fairbanks will have to take lie detector tests as a term of their parole or probation. Plans are under way to expand a polygraph test pilot program started …
On Friday, 10 November 2006, National Public Radio’s On the Media program included a segment on lie detectors titled “Something Like Truth” during which host Brooke Gladstone spoke with UCLA law professor Jennifer L. Mnookin. The 8-minute, 41-second segment may be downloaded as a 3.5 mb MP3 file here.
Alan P. Zelicoff, M.D., speaks plainly in this op-ed piece published today in the Albuquerque Tribune: Politicians will create uninformed, dangerous policies unless scientists are willing to talk truth to power, despite possible risks to their funding Alan Zelicoff Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Somewhere in the bowels of the Department of Energy lies the answer …
BBC News reports on a call by the charity, Barnardo’s, for lie detector testing and GPS tracking of pedophiles in the UK. Excerpt: Children’s charity Barnardo’s is calling on the government to use lie detector tests and satellite tracking to monitor sex offenders. It claims pilot studies in the UK have shown promising results. One …
Ted Haggard, the recently resigned and disgraced pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, reportedly faces polygraphic interrogation by a triumvirate of inquisitors. In “Dobson, 2 ministers to offer counsel,” Carol McGraw of the Colorado Springs Gazette reports: The three men chosen to oversee the Rev. Ted Haggard’s spiritual restoration are well-known in …
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.