wrote on Jan 26^th, 2003 at 5:41pm:

Of course he may in fact be producing physiological reactions that polygraphers interpret as 'truthful'-- and they are simply lying about the results in an effort to get him to make damaging admissions or at least see how he reacts to such [erroneous] accusations.

Beech,
You're absolutely correct, and I forgot to mention it.

The whole thing is about bluff, anyway (right down to the "there are only two reasons someone will fail a polygraph: Deception and Uncertainty!" assertion).

Skeptic