Quote: Terence11/Terence441,
I am curious to know those number as well, but don't expect George or Doug to tell you. With the recent crack down on anti-polygraph teachings by the government, George and Doug are probably skeptical about anyone who contacts them now possibly being an undercover pro-polygraph law enforcement person or some federal agent trying to trap them or get some more intel. Everyone is a suspect now, even you and I. The best thing you can do is continue to spread the anti-poly message, how the polygraph is nothing more than an interrogation tool fishing for confessions, that it can be easily beaten, and it is pure junk science.
I don't mind answering Terence's question, as best I can. We don't have cumulative download statistics (and we regularly delete our server logs), but in a typical week,
The Lie Behind the Lie Detector is downloaded about 1,000 times. At times, as with the news of Operation Lie Busters, the download rate becomes much higher. Throughout all editions of the book, we've kept the file size small enough that it could be placed on a diskette (no longer a concern) or sent as an e-mail attachment. The book is also available
on Scribd.com (where it has over 70,000 views), and via BitTorrent. It's also mirrored on numerous websites. Considering that it has been available (in various editions) for more than 13 years, I think we can conservatively estimate that
The Lie Behind the Lie Detector has been downloaded or shared at least 500,000 times and quite possibly more than a million.
Quote:George is safe for now because he lives overseas and this site is hosted on some foreign server. But I bet the minute George buys a plane ticket to the U.S., he will be flagged in some system and set up to be arrested on some bogus charge as soon as he touches down in the U.S..
We'll be learning the answer to that question soon.
Quote:It's getting dangerous out there. The polygraph is being exposed and those who expose it are considered a "threat" to national security. More intrusive government oversight that does more harm than good. Step lightly everyone, and God speed...
The true threat to national security where polygraphy is concerned is our continued misplaced reliance on this pseudoscience.