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Mosby

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25. Polygraph tests don't work

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Mar 9, 2025, 06:10 PM

Mar 9

Last edited Sun Mar 9, 2025, 09:04 PM - Edit history (1)

It's pseudoscience.

Eta - it's really remarkable how much power ideas can have. Machine assisted lie detection is a perfect example.

Do people still believe in "truth serum"?

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DHS administering lie detector tests to employees in effort to find leakers [View all] BumRushDaShow Mar 9 OP

LMAO. Start weighing ducks next. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! AmericaUnderSiege Mar 9 #1

... BumRushDaShow Mar 9 #3

Yep! OldBaldy1701E Mar 10 #29

Those tests are notoriously unreliable. NotHardly Mar 9 #9

Demand Norm take one. Sounds fair to me. multigraincracker Mar 9 #2

They should have been doing it during the Obama admin. "Have you ever had the desire to overthrow the U.S. Government?" LiberalArkie Mar 9 #4

Polygraphs don't work though. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 9 #17

It would have probably caught the ones that did the J6. Sure you can lie as long as you can keep your BP and HR and LiberalArkie Mar 9 #19

J6 were a stochastic terrorist mob. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 9 #20

I said it before johnnyfins Mar 9 #5

They didnt get any leakers johnnyfins Mar 9 #6

I know why Noem makes me especially johnnyfins Mar 9 #7

Sounds like a great deal of wasted money. What a shitshow. Martin68 Mar 9 #8

"Democracy Dies In Darkness" JohnnyRingo Mar 9 #10

Big news here in South Dakota... IthinkThereforeIAM Mar 9 #11

Wow! Noem is cruel AND corrupt???? johnnyfins Mar 9 #13

Leakers have not put enforcement lives in jeopardy. Random and haphazard firing of enforcement officials has put Martin68 Mar 9 #12

Good news is that there will ALWAYS be johnnyfins Mar 9 #14

First people on the lie dectector should be Musk and Big Balls mdbl Mar 9 #15

i think they might pass because you have to have a conscience MadameButterfly Mar 9 #22

Who WOULDN'T want to work here!!! Grins Mar 9 #16

This is a HUGE deal and let me explain why... Don1 Mar 9 #18

A lot of people would fail nowdays because of the stress MadameButterfly Mar 9 #23

And since those things are not 100% reliable DFW Mar 9 #21

bunch of freaks 4catsmom Mar 9 #24

Polygraph tests don't work Mosby Mar 9 #25

If ANY Traildogbob Mar 9 #26

They do know lie-detector tests are inadmissible in court, right? Right? sakabatou Mar 9 #27

I thought we already knew it was Dick Cheney and his friends at the Saudi Embassy ?? nt eppur_se_muova Mar 10 #28