wrote on Jun 30^th, 2002 at 7:46pm:

I have a question.  You mention that the purpose of this site is to help truthful people pass the test, but you also concede you may be assisting guilty people to do the same.  Let's suppose there is someone out there reading your recommendations, and he is guilty of murder or a violent crime.  He reads your recommendations and avoids being caught because of the countermeasures you are teaching him.  Do you give this any consideration at all?

Since polygraphs have never been proven to be more accurate than chance (i.e., a flip of a coin), an investigator relying upon the charted results of a polygraph interrogation would be foolish indeed. It's the use of the polygraph as an interrogation prop that is usually decisive in getting recalcitrant criminals to confess, because they (along with many Americans) believe the 'lie behind the lie detector'.

Trickery, deceit, and lies have been established by law as legal tactics for police interrogators to deploy as part of their investigations into criminal suspects. Certainly polygraphy is a part of that triumvirate. It was an early pioneer of the polygraph himself, John Larson, who wrote:

I originally hoped that instrumental lie detection would become a legitimate part of professional police science. It is little more than a racket. The lie detector, as used in many places, is nothing more than a psychological third-degree aimed at extorting confessions as the old physical beatings were. At times I’m sorry I ever had any part in its development.

Like George said, the countermeasure information was out there prior to this website's inception for those who might one day be subjected to a polygraph.

Does the investigator who relies on a pseudo-scintific fraud to chart the course of his investigation bear any responsibility?