Lie Detectors! (How Do They Work, How Accurate Are They, and Can They Be Beaten?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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lie detectors became very popular and went on to have a huge cultural influence. Police used them to try to catch criminals, Governments used them totry to catch spies,. Lawyers used them to evaluate people who reported encounters. And there were even television shows that used them to tries to sort out controversies.
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Human beings have been telling lies since the dawn of history and finding ways to detect them has been a high priority. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the polygraph machine, how reliable it is, whether it can be beaten, historical methods of lie detection, and whether you should ever take a lie detector test.
