Polygraph in the news

[arcticpenguin]

Dancer sues tabloid over Affleck sex stories (http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/16/affleck.stripper.reut/index.html)

Antonella Santini, the exotic dancer featured in salacious National Enquirer stories that purported to detail a sexual encounter she had with actress Jennifer Lopez' fiance, Ben Affleck, has sued the tabloid, saying she never had sex with the "Gigli" actor.
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She asks for punitive damages against the Enquirer, saying the tabloid should have known Morris was an unreliable source because she failed at least one polygraph test, and passed only after taking Ativan, an anti-anxiety medication.

They don't seem to mention that polygraphs have been largely discredited.

[Rat]

Originally posted by arcticpenguin
Dancer sues tabloid over Affleck sex stories (http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/16/affleck.stripper.reut/index.html)

They don't seem to mention that polygraphs have been largely discredited.
More evidence? I believe you, and they've rarely, if ever been used here for criminal investigation. At least as admissible evidence. But I still see them regularly used in investigations in US crime TV shows, which I realize are fiction, but still.

[arcticpenguin]

Would a report by a commison of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084369/html/) fulfill your request for evidence? This commission was convened especially to study the topic with relevance to use of the polygraph at U.S. national labs (http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/newsbulletin/forum/letter2003-209.shtml). Last I heard (and I admit I may not be up=to-date on it) leadership of the labs decided to ignore the commission report and continue using polygraph testing.

[Rat]

Yup. That'll do nicely. As I said, I already understood this to be the case, but had not seen documentation to that effect.

On a similar note, I regularly see (on, say, CSI) the police blowing up, to many times original magnification, an image so as to read the text of a sign reflected in someone's watch dial glass or whatever, so I don't take such shows too seriously.

Cheers,
Rat.