police Can polygraph tests weed out bad cops? Thom Dunn

leaks Antipolygraph.org publishes secret guidelines for the federal "Test for Espionage and Sabotage," a psuedoscientific feature of government life Cory Doctorow

Science What would it be like if we all wore accurate lie detectors around all the time? Rose Eveleth

trains Train cab video leading up to Norfolk Southern derailment is missing Rob Beschizza

Georgia's Qongresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene panics about her brainwashed voters getting brainwashed (video) Carla Sinclair

tabloids Prince Charles and Joe Biden unfit to lead in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

aliens Demi Lovato sings a song to help traumatized alien ghosts Thom Dunn

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museums Auction: Lipstick gun, poison-tipped umbrella, hotel room "bug," and other KGB spy gear David Pescovitz

generators Half of deaths from Hurricane Laura were caused by CO poisoning Thom Dunn

Business Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors Cory Doctorow

psychology How con artists use the Ouija board effect for their scams David Pescovitz

happy mutants A 40cm-square patch that renders you invisible to person-detecting AIs Cory Doctorow

labor The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants Cory Doctorow

net neutrality Documenting the laughable lies the FCC told at the hearing where it killed Net Neutrality Cory Doctorow

law Why Trial by Ordeal was like a medieval polygraph Rob Beschizza

futility closet The first crime solved by a lie detector Futility Closet

picks Weird 'artificial' quake was 'clearly' North Korea's fifth nuclear test Xeni Jardin

dupe Iraq stops using $60,000 dowsing rods for bomb detection Mark Frauenfelder

fraud Iraq bans fake bomb detectors Rob Beschizza