{"id":3886,"date":"2003-02-24T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2003-02-24T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2021-03-07T01:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T06:50:37","slug":"stars-lie-detector-challenge-to-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/24\/stars-lie-detector-challenge-to-michael-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"“Star’s Lie Detector Challenge to Michael Jackson”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tabloid Star<\/em> magazine has challenged<\/a> musician Michael Jackson to a lie detector “test.” Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IS he or isn’t he?<\/strong><\/p>

The one question millions of Americans want to ask is whether Michael Jackson is a sexual predator of children. Or is he merely an eccentric 44-year-old entertainer with a fondness for kids bordering on the bizarre?<\/p>

He has admitted to sleeping in the same bed with young boys but denies any sexual contact with them, despite having settled a multimillion-dollar lawsuit involving a 13-year-old kid. So who is the real Michael Jackson and what is the real story?<\/p>

Star magazine is now giving Jackson the chance to settle this disturbing national debate. We are offering Jackson $1 million to take a lie detector test. If he truthfully answers the “10 Questions America Wants to Ask” in a simple “yes or no” format, he would prove whether he has been unfairly branded a monster.<\/p>

The questions range from the depth of his involvement with young boys to whether or not he really had sex with Lisa Marie Presley. “This is a bona-fide offer to Michael Jackson,” says Star Editorial Director Tony Frost, who fired off to Jackson a registered letter about the offer. “Once and for all, Michael could put all the rumors and innuendoes to rest.”<\/p>

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Star has chosen one of the country’s foremost specialists, retired Miami Police Homicide Detective Nelson Andreu. He owns the highly respected Deception Check Polygraph and Investigative Services<\/a> in Miami. In addition to an impressive list of credentials, Andreu is certified by the Florida court system as a polygrapher of sexual offenders. He has tested hundreds of suspects.<\/p>

“A polygraph measures the involuntary physiological changes in a person being interviewed,” Andreu explains. “No one can beat it. I’ll be happy to work with Mr. Jackson.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Passing or failing a lie detector “test” puts nothing to rest: polygraphy is a pseudoscientific fraud that has no diagnostic value. It may, however, have some value as a promotional stunt for sensationalistic publications like Star<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tabloid Star magazine has challenged musician Michael Jackson to a lie detector “test.” Excerpt: IS he or isn’t he? The one question millions of Americans want to ask is whether Michael Jackson is a sexual predator of children. Or is he merely an eccentric 44-year-old entertainer with a fondness for kids bordering on the …<\/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":[462],"class_list":{"0":"post-3886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-michael-jackson","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","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=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}