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Hey quackery or not, the Polygraph saved my heart. (Disclosure: A bit of an exaggeration.) After hours of uncomfortable prodding, an interviewer came into the
by withinrafael 2y ago
Hey quackery or not, the Polygraph saved my heart. (Disclosure: A bit of an exaggeration.)
After hours of uncomfortable prodding, an interviewer came into the room and suggested I see a doctor for what looked like heart arrhythmia. I did shortly after and they were right! (It was deemed nothing too serious though.)
- bityard 2y agoYeah, the instruments work fine, but the interpretation of the readings is just modern day tea leaves.
- jmyeet 2y agoAlternative take: lack of accessible, affordable and comprehensive healthcare almost cost me my life. I'm actually curious. Do you get an annual physical? Does your PCP give you an EKG? That would be the appropriate way to catch this.
- kwhitefoot 2y agoAre annual physicals provably worth doing? Or are they the medical profession's version of the polygraph?
- withinrafael 2y agoI was young back then and was not getting annual physicals. That has changed, along with regular exercise!
- selimthegrim 2y agoLast night the polygraph saved my life…
- ttyprintk 2y agoFrom the article: Even the telltale spike in the polygraph chart, itself largely a myth created by TV and movies, can indicate anything from a heart problem to sexual attraction. (Indeed, the machine’s inventors used it to detect both of those things. Larson married one of his first test subjects, and Keeler discovered a heart defect while testing the machine on himself.)