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I don't think they've been shown to be better than placebo.
by justinpombrio 9y ago
I don't think they've been shown to be better than placebo.
- harry8 9y agoIf you believe they might work, the operator can do a good cop/bad cop routine with the machine to get you to admit to stuff, frequently stuff that never happened. But they could do the same with a magic rock if you believed in that.
- mikeash 9y agoApparently this has been done with some success by using a photocopier as the “lie detector”: https://newrepublic.com/article/38982/the-wire-ripped-real-life https://newrepublic.com/article/38982/the-wire-ripped-real-l...