{"id":79,"date":"2006-10-29T09:37:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T13:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2021-02-12T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T20:39:37","slug":"polygraph-showdown-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/polygraph-showdown-in-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraph Showdown in Nevada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The Associated Press <a title=\"Nev. Candidate Says He'd Take Polygraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/29\/AR2006102900136.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that Representative <a title=\"Jim Gibbons\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Gibbons_%28United_States_politician%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Gibbons<\/a> (R-NV), who is running for governor in Nevada, is willing to take a polygraph test to prove that he did not make a sexual advance against cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo, who had <a title=\"Nevada candidate's accuser in assault case goes public\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/sunbin\/stories\/nevada\/2006\/oct\/25\/102510097.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier voiced her willingness<\/a> to take a polygraph test to prove the truthfulness of her accusation. While polygraphs may make for titillating political theater, they are a poor way of determining truth in such situations. To begin with, polygraph testing has <a title=\"Forensic 'Lie Detection': Procedures Without Scientific Basis\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/articles\/article-018.shtml\">no scientific basis<\/a>. Moreover, they are easily fooled through the use of simple countermeasures that polygraphers have no demonstrated ability to detect. Who&#8217;s to say whether one or both parties know <a title=\"The Lie Behind the Lie Detector\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.orgpubs.shtml\">the lie behind the lie detector<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that Representative Jim Gibbons (R-NV), who is running for governor in Nevada, is willing to take a polygraph test to prove that he did not make a sexual advance against cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo, who had earlier voiced her willingness to take a polygraph test to prove the truthfulness of her &#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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}