Creative Babel

Doug William. Hi, is this Doug? Hey, I did. Hey, Doug. It's Javier with the podcast. How's it going?

Hey, hey. How's it going? I'll tell you what I'm doing. I'm cruising down the road on a turnpike.

If it's okay with you, we can carry on. Let's give it a shot. You can say that the crazy crusader

is still on the road with his eye in the rearview mirror for the federalis.

You're just as exciting as I imagine you to be. Doug Williams is looking over his shoulder because

since 1979, he's been on a crusade trying to defeat the polygraph machine. In 1996, he started a

website called polygraph.com offering a manual and one-on-one training teaching people how to

beat the test. He claims the machine doesn't work in his result and his and people are paying the

price. His are a way to physically tell when somebody's lying. No, there is no conocchio response.

Your nose does not grow when you lie. Now, polygraph reaction is very, very simple. It's a

fighter flight response. A fighter flight response is when a shot of adrenaline shoots through your

body when confronted with a threat. Imagine a bear kicks open your cabin door. Your blood pressure

rises. Your sweat glands pour out and your heart begins to beat harder and faster. That's what it's

called the flight or flight response. Now, I will give him this. About 50% of the time when you're

asking a relevant question, did you steal that $10,000? And a guy did, in fact, steal that $10,000

and he has a reaction. 50% of the time that means he probably did steal that $10,000.

According to Doug Williams, a live detector test is about as accurate as a coin toss.

But 50% of the time it can also mean that he's enraged having to ask the question in the first place

and he's suffering from misplaced guilt. Even the tone of the examiner's voice can cause

any problems. I'm sure you've heard this argument before. Many people have pleaded guilty and

skipped trial because they failed the polygraph during an interrogation. Once upon a time,

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