{"id":131,"date":"2007-04-10T10:47:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2021-02-14T04:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T09:41:23","slug":"if-lie-detectors-are-so-great-why-not-use-them-on-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/if-lie-detectors-are-so-great-why-not-use-them-on-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"If Lie Detectors Are So Great, Why Not Use Them on Politicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Writer Ian Williams raises the question in <a title=\"The New Salem Witch Trials\" href=\"https:\/\/deadlinepundit.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/new-salem-witch-trials.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The New Salem Witch Trials,&#8221;<\/a> a stinging commentary on the British government&#8217;s harebrained scheme to use voice stress analysis to assess the truthfulness of applicants for social welfare benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Ian Williams raises the question in &#8220;The New Salem Witch Trials,&#8221; a stinging commentary on the British government&#8217;s harebrained scheme to use voice stress analysis to assess the truthfulness of applicants for social welfare benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-voice-stress","7":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}