Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Following hard on the heels of NBC Dateline’s shameful use of the lie detector as a ratings gimmick, syndicated television news program Inside Edition will today feature a polygraph “test” of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband, Frederic von Anhalt, regarding his claim that he might be the father of the late Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter, Dannielynn. …
On Friday, 5 May 2006, veteran newsman Kevin Broderick mentioned this blog’s article, Phony Ph.D. Ed Gelb Gets $150,000 Long Beach Contract in his influential LA Observed blog: Lying in Long Beach: The website AntiPolygraph.org says the city of Long Beach has hired Intercept, Inc., a Los Angeles company “headed by celebrity polygrapher Ed Gelb, …
Harmon Leon writes for SF Weekly. Excerpt: This ad appears on Craigslist: Has your parole officer accused you of doing something you haven’t done? Could this put you back in jail? Then we want to help. Call us and we’ll clear your name. We’ve got a show to help you prove who’s telling the truth. …
This Associated Press article published by the Denver Post is cited here in full: Chattanooga, Tenn. – A televised polygraph test has indicated that a kidney donor did not answer truthfully when he denied receiving more money than the law allows from his Internet-arranged organ donation to a stranger from Colorado. Rob Smitty, a 32-year-old …
Beth Barrett of the Los Angeles Daily News reports on the non-competitive contract recently awarded to US Investigation Services to provide polygraph support for the Los Angeles Police Department. Excerpt: Without seeking bids, Los Angeles hired an East Coast security firm — at double the going rate — to perform lie detector tests on LAPD …