{"id":298,"date":"2009-03-21T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T08:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-05-07T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:04:40","slug":"how-tom-henry-beat-the-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/how-tom-henry-beat-the-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tom Henry Beat the Polygraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In an oral history posted on YouTube, musician Tom Henry recounts the story of how, as a young Navy seaman, he was caught with a pound of marijuana in his locker, but escaped punishment after fooling the lie detector:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-responsive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom in the Navy- Part 3:  beats the lie detector\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pqldtvPh-TQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The technique Tom thought of for fooling the lie detector (dissociation) wasn&#8217;t very sophisticated. But it evidently worked against what, given the time (1966) was very likely a Relevent\/Irrelevant polygraph &#8220;test.&#8221; For more on various polygraph techniques and how they can be manipulated, see <a title=\"Free e-book on polygraphy\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.orglie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf\"><em>The Lie Behind the Lie Detector<\/em><\/a> (1 mb PDF).<\/p>\n<p>Tom Henry&#8217;s story helps highlight the foolhardiness of relying on polygraph results. For more background on how Mr. Henry came to have a pound of marijuana in his locker, see his preceding video, <a title=\"Tom Henry - Busted for Pot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BIipIIQSkgM&amp;feature=channel_page\" target=\"_blank\">Busted for Pot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an oral history posted on YouTube, musician Tom Henry recounts the story of how, as a young Navy seaman, he was caught with a pound of marijuana in his locker, but escaped punishment after fooling the lie detector: The technique Tom thought of for fooling the lie detector (dissociation) wasn&#8217;t very sophisticated. But it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[64,44,204,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-countermeasures","8":"tag-lie-detector","9":"tag-polygraph","10":"tag-relevantirrelevant","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}