Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation

See Scientology for example.

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They’ve already got that covered:

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Are you sure you didn’t get that ad from the back of a comic book? Next to the X-Ray Specs?

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“Will”?*

*That’s the “will” contracted into the “they’ll” in your original sentence, of course.

Previously:

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Why don’t they stick to the classics?

colander

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Same thing as a polygraph and cheaper. What could go wrong?

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Note the overlap between categories of people who believe false facts portrayed as evidence and those who believe false facts portrayed as news. Don’t get me started on the cohort who believe false data as being scientific/empirical fact(s).

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That may be a “legend,” but I have seen videos of similar criminal confessions. In one, the Good Cop threatened (in a friendly way—this was after the Bad Cop had stormed out of the room) to boot up a laptop with a voice-analyzing “lie detector” program. The suspect was so nervous about the “lie detector” that he confessed to the Good Cop. The laptop remained unopened. Defense counsel moved to suppress the confession but was unsuccessful; it’s well-established that police can lie (within very broad limits) during interrogations.

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