Pentagon continues to rely on the pseudoscience of lie detector tests to hunt leakers
Polygraphs are ‘pseudo-scientific’ in that they measure physiological responses such as heart rate, blood pressure and perspiration
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What happens now after man accused of locking 16 kids in a squalid room found unfit to stand trial
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