Batman wrote on Jun 27^th, 2002 at 8:23pm:

First to Skeptic: I have been in the law enforcement field since 1978, and in that time have had a tremendous amount of exposure to interviews, interrogations, and polygraph.  Why assume that I am a polygraph examiner?  Maybe I simply take offense to amatures making ignorant comments and assumptions regarding how a confession is obtained.  If Beech Trees is capable of presenting his credentials then let him do so.  Until then he should base his comments on fact not speculation and or assumptions.

Fair enough.  In my defense, a non-polygrapher critic of this site and/or its backers is, by all indications, in the small minority.  Nonetheless, I apologize for my assumption as well.

I am curious, though: are you actually familiar with the peer-reviewed scientific evidence regarding the polygraph's validity/reliability?  I ask this because of your dismissive assertion implying that this evidence can be twisted to promote any position one wants to promote.  Have you actually read the studies?

Skeptic