Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Noah Schachtman reports for Wired News. Excerpt: The military may have ways — gruesome ways — of making people talk, as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal has shown. But it still doesn’t have a reliable method for figuring out whether those people are telling the truth or not. Nearly 75 years since the introduction of …
Julia Scheeres reports for Wired News. Excerpt: U.S. investigators are facing the daunting task of sorting through more than 700 suspects in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A neuroscientist from Iowa says he’s got the perfect tool to help them do it. Lawrence Farwell says he has devised a test that will ascertain …
Boston Globe staff writer Patricia Wen reports. Excerpt: Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames easily fooled lie detector tests, concealing his work as a Russian spy. But could he have duped a ”brain fingerprinting” exam, which probes what people know by checking their electrical brain waves? … Iowa-based neuroscientist Lawrence Farwell…is eager to see his ”brain …