Harlot,

I am not aware of any television program (or even any newspaper article) that has adequately exposed the sheer fraud on which polygraphy depends. By "fraud," I mean the trickery and deceit inherent in the "control" question "test," which Mr. Scalabrini and I have termed "the lie behind the lie detector." The vast majority of the American public (and, indeed, the world public) remains unaware of it.

In 1986, before the Employee Polygraph Protection Act became law, CBS 60 Minutes aired a segment on polygraph "testing." You'll find Leonard Saxe's account of that program quoted on pages 3-4 of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector.

Former police polygrapher Doug Williams, author of "How to Sting the Polygraph," has appeared on numerous televised news programs, including the CBS 60 Minutes episode referred to above, but I haven't seen them. See his website for more details:

http://www.polygraph.com

I think a Pulitzer Prize might be waiting for the investigative journalist who blows the whistle on polygraphy.

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