(via APS – What’s New by Bob Park – November 21, 2003) LIE DETECTORS: WILL THEY REDUCE INSURANCE FRAUD IN EUROPE? For a while maybe. After one major auto insurer in the UK began using voice risk-analysis software six months ago, a quarter of the stolen car claims were dropped. Now, the Daily Telegraph claims, … Continue reading “Polygraphs: but they scare the Hell out of people”
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Polygraph: Green River Killer Passed a 1984 Lie Detector Test
(via APS – What’s New by Bob Park – November 7, 2003) DOE will subject all 4,500 employees with top-secret clearance to polygraph tests (WN 5 Sep 03). How likely is it that a polygraph test will uncover a spy, assuming there is one? In 1984, with the Green River body count at 46, Gary … Continue reading “Polygraph: Green River Killer Passed a 1984 Lie Detector Test”
Polygraph Testing Less than Worthless
(via APS – What’s New by Bob Park – September 5, 2003) A two-year study by the National Academy of Sciences, “The Polygraph and Lie Detection,” showed polygraph testing to be less than worthless (WN 18 Apr 03). You might have expected at least a token decrease in testing by the Department of Energy. Instead … Continue reading “Polygraph Testing Less than Worthless”
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AAAS Releases Statement on Intelligent Design
Dear NCSE friends & supporters, The board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) released a “Resolution on Intelligent Design Theory” that states, in part, that Whereas, the ID movement has failed to offer credible scientific evidence to support their claim that ID undermines the current scientifically accepted theory of … Continue reading “AAAS Releases Statement on Intelligent Design”