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

[kiki]

See Scientology for example.

[anon62122146]

@anon47741163

If applicants with a certain intelligence level were hired onto the force, they might call such methods into question. This is why we can’t have nice things.

They’ve already got that covered:

Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops

[muser]

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

[edked]

“Will”?*

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

[GagHalfrunt]

@jaded

So the only difference between this and water-witching is that the investigators hold a piece of paper instead of a forked stick? Sounds legit to me.

@Brainspore

Amazing! It’s like someone found a way to combine a service pistol with a dowsing rod.

ADE 651

Previously:

Iraq bans fake bomb detectors

[RickMycroft]

Why don’t they stick to the classics?

Colander Lie Detector

[jrkrideau]

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

[wphurley]

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).

[FlyerJack]

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.

[hecep]