The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found itself embroiled in a rather odd situation involving polygraph tests. In April, it confirmed to NPR that it was using these tests to catch personnel ...

For as long as human beings have deceived one another, people have tried to develop techniques for detecting deception and finding truth. Lie detection took on aspects of modern science with the ...

“And you might not even catch the culprit — there’s no evidence to suggest that an actual lie detector is even scientifically possible,” he told me in an email. Polygraphs were kept for public service ...