Thanks for that video, George Maschke. The reason the polygraph is still here is because of one main thing. Confessions. Somewhere in the polygraph community each agency/company has statistics on how many confessions they get. How much information that the victims...err...subjects give about themselves. As long as this statistic remains up, the poly is here to stay.

That video is completely accurate. What we need if we want to abolish polygraphy is a national news broadcast exposing it. I'm not talking about some random 3-rd party news site, Mythbusters or a Penn & Teller episode (which both weren't quite accurate). I'm mean a part in some president's (not Obama's) State of the Union speech that tells everyone how the polygraph really works, how not to make admissions/confessions, and even showing a few demos on the silly process altogether. Once the polygraph secrets are exposed nationally, the polygraph community will be ruined. Imagine then when subjects come in and don't admit anything during the "pre-test", the "in-test", or during the "post-test" interrogations. Imagine no confessions being made ever again. Polygraphers would be pissed and only have some charts that would all basically be inconclusive and useless. It would be like a magician whose tricks were revealed. A person who has been stripped naked in public. A preacher caught in a whore-house. Complete exposure and ruin. 

Sadly, people still believe the polygraph works and still make disqualifying confessions during the process. People get in there and spill all there guts on little stuff that has no relevance. (I read a story recently about one guy who admitted to playing an internet game with a teenage girl. No harm. But he was probed so much on it he refused to talk anymore and got disqualified for "failure to cooperate".) We need to spread the word, maybe even get some members of congress who will put the polygraph on blast!

George W. Maschke wrote on Feb 16^th, 2013 at 7:42am:


To watch excerpts from this CBS 60 MINUTES program, go to my website www.polygraph.com. ; You can also get a free copy of my book FROM COP TO CRUSADER: THE STORY OF MY FIGHT AGAINST THE DANGEROUS MYTH OF "LIE DETECTION", and read the behind the scenes account of how I helped produce this investigative report - and the part I played in getting the EPPA enacted.