{"id":3900,"date":"2003-03-25T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2021-03-08T03:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:53:38","slug":"coward-jacko-rejects-stars-1m-lie-detector-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/25\/coward-jacko-rejects-stars-1m-lie-detector-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Coward! Jacko Rejects Star&#8217;s $1m Lie-Detector Challenge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The tabloid <em>Star<\/em> magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030409213138\/http:\/\/www.starmagazine.com\/stories\/feature.cfm?instanceid=57435\">reports<\/a> that musician Michael Jackson has declined its challenge to submit to a lie detector &#8220;test&#8221; regarding his sex life. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>SCANDAL-plagued superstar Michael Jackson has turned up his deteriorating nose at Star magazine&#8217;s $1 MILLION offer to take a lie-detector test that would clarify his relationships with children.<\/strong><\/p><p>And his refusal to accept Star&#8217;s challenge has child-welfare experts now blasting the pop oddity as a coward.<\/p><p>&#8220;This is typical Michael Jackson, not to want to take a lie-detector test, because in my opinion he has been lying for many years,&#8221; declares psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman &#8212; who recently lodged a formal complaint with Child Protection Services in Santa Barbara, Calif., over Jackson&#8217;s relationship with his three children.<\/p><p>&#8220;It was a golden opportunity if he had nothing to hide, but obviously he&#8217;s not that brave.&#8221;<\/p><p>Famed lawyer Gloria Allred &#8212; who is also demanding a probe by child welfare authorities &#8212; agrees. &#8220;It would be potentially very good for him if he passed (a lie detector test),&#8221; she says. &#8220;But the flipside is that if he didn&#8217;t, then there could be more bad PR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychiatrist Carole Lieberman and lawyer Gloria Allred should know better than to put stock in lie detector &#8220;testing.&#8221; Mr. Jackson&#8217;s rejection of <em>Star&#8217;s<\/em> challenge, if it is indicative of anything, merely demonstrates that he has the good sense not to entrust his reputation to such charlatanry.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tabloid Star magazine reports that musician Michael Jackson has declined its challenge to submit to a lie detector &#8220;test&#8221; regarding his sex life. Excerpt: SCANDAL-plagued superstar Michael Jackson has turned up his deteriorating nose at Star magazine&#8217;s $1 MILLION offer to take a lie-detector test that would clarify his relationships with children. And his &#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":[462],"class_list":{"0":"post-3900","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\/3900","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=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}