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episode 291: Doug Williams | The Truth about Polygraphs and Lie Detection
Doug Williams (@DougWilliams_PG) is an ex-cop on a 40-year crusade against what he calls the "evil, insidious Orwellian polygraph industry" that landed him in federal prison for two years.
What We Discuss with Doug Williams:- How does the so-called "lie-detecting" polygraph test actually work, and how easy is it to fool?
- Why is private industry in the United States forbidden from using polygraph testing to screen job applicants, whereas the government relies on it?
- How dangerous is it to national security that this reliance hinges on trusting technology contemporary with (and arguably as complex as) the invention of the toaster?
- Why polygraph testing has more in common with pseudo-sciences like phrenology, conversion therapy, and dowsing than disciplines verifiable by the scientific method.
- How Doug wound up serving two years in a federal prison for teaching people how to beat polygraph tests with a method not dissimilar to body control taught to expectant mothers in Lamaze classes.
- And much more...
Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/291
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