https://antipolygraph.org/YaBBImages/avatars/ap.gif https://antipolygraph.org/index.shtml Non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing and ending waste, fraud, and abuse associated with the use of the polygraph (lie detector). Non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing waste, fraud, and abuse associated with the use of the polygraph (lie detector). https://antipolygraph.org/index.shtml https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1216887050 2008-07-24T11:55:00+02:00 The featured speaker at the APA's 2008 seminar in Indianapolis, Indiana was disbarred for "multiple counts of egregious misconduct, including offering false testimony, engaging in ex parte communications, violating a client's confidences, violating two federal court orders, and trust account violations, including commingling and misappropriation." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=200 2008-07-24T11:55:00+02:00 CBS News 4 of Miami reports that according to a filing by the U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuting Guillermo Zarabozo for murder in the "Joe Cool" case, polygrapher Tom Mote, a former Metro-Dade detective and member of the Florida Polygraph Association, attempted to conceal unfavorable polygraph results. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1216019410 2008-07-21T11:55:00+02:00 I wanted to post my experience here and get any feedback that was offered. I think sharing the story will help me personally as is hard for me to currently swallow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiP5wlYzij0 2008-06-16T12:50:00+02:00 Armed Forces Network, Afghanistan report on the deployment of the new hand-held lie detector, formally called the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System (PCASS). https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1212788690 2008-06-07T00:00:00+02:00 The Obama campaign has a web form through which members of the public can present their ideas on issues of policy. Regardless of whom you support for president of the United States in this fall's election, you might want to send a suggestion to the Obama campaign to end polygraph screening. http://antipolygraph.org/articles/article-053.shtml 2008-06-01T16:05:00+02:00 The accuracy of polygraphic lie detection is slightly above chance. Nevertheless, State and local police departments and law enforcement agencies across the United States are devoted proponents of this unscientific and specious device. In addition, the American public seems to lend an implicit credence to the "lie detector" as evinced by its ubiquitous use on television crime shows and in "whodunit" literature. It is given overt attributions of credibility on tabloid type talk shows and news shows. For example, in the highly publicized case of Tonya Harding a reporter stated, not with removed objectivity but with sardonic grin and mocking emphasis, that the accused had failed two polygraph tests. The implied assumption is that if the person has failed the polygraph test, then therefore he or she is guilty regardless of other evidence. Bottom line. Culpa ex machina. End of story. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1212154943 2008-05-31T19:00:00+02:00 In 2005, PAX TV (now ION Television) ran a single season show called Lie Detector hosted by Rolanda Watts and featuring celebrity polygraph operator "Dr." Ed Gelb, a past president of the American Polygraph Association (whom AntiPolygraph.org has previously exposed as a phony Ph.D.). One episode of the show was infiltrated by humorist Harmon Leon, who concocted a story about having been wrongly busted for marijuana use while on parole and told Lie Detector's producers that he wanted to take a lie detector test to clear his name. The entire story, including the assumed name he used (Hank Leon) was fictitious. Yet he passed the lie detector test administered by one of America's most renowned polygraphers. Leon relates the story in an entertaining San Francisco Weekly article appropriately titled, "Bullshitting the Lie Detector." The video of Harmon's appearance on Lie Detector is now available on YouTube. Keep in mind, his entire story is a fiction. The money quote of the clip is Gelb's summation, after finding Harmon truthful: "Thankfully...the polygraph is blind. It doesn't know the difference between color, economic status, or political persuasion. But thankfully, it does know the difference between truth and deception!" Enjoy! https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1211866368 2008-05-27T11:30:00+02:00 In "Border Agents, Lured by the Other Side," New York Times reporters Randal C. Archibold and Andrew Becker write that in an effort to stem corruption, the U.S. Border Patrol plans, among other things, to begin polygraph screening of applicants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJvh0GFNUrE 2008-05-27T11:30:00+02:00 Have you heard the story about the police who used a colander connected to a photocopier as a lie detector? It turns out that the "real" lie detector -- the polygraph -- works on much the same principle. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1211501403 2008-05-23T10:30:00+02:00 I want to start off my first post by saying I really wish I had researched polygraphs before I had been administered one. I knew they were inadmissible in most court situations, I knew they were regarded as bunk science, yet I didn't "refresh" my memory prior to my polygraph because I was worried it would make me more anxious and cause me to fail. Little did I know that I was being set up to fail from the start; and having read this site would have let me beat the odds that were stacked against me. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1211192701 2008-05-19T14:50:00+02:00 As controversial as the use of polygraphs may be, there are for all intents and purposes only two websites with public forums devoted to the discussion of polygraph issues: PolygraphPlace.com (a for-profit, commercial website operated by a polygraph examiner) and AntiPolygraph.org (a not-for-profit, public interest website). A comparison between these two forums, both of which have been on-line for roughly eight years, offers an object lesson in the effects of censorship, as the former is censored, and the latter is not. The bottom line up front: the uncensored forum has roughly 6.5 times as many public posts as the censored one.