Television - Tag - In a past life… https://archive.jtimothyking.com/tags/television/ Television - Tag - In a past life… Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 06 Jan 2009 16:16:29 +0000 Lie Detecting: A Bullshit Episode Penn & Teller Should Do https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2009/01/06/lie-detecting-a-bullshit-episode-penn-teller-should-do/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:16:29 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2009/01/06/lie-detecting-a-bullshit-episode-penn-teller-should-do/ Penn & Teller haven’t yet done an episode on lie detecting for their Emmy-nominated series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (which you can get on DVD). On Bullshit Penn & Teller expose, rip apart, and generally make fun of nonsense from talking to the dead to alien abduction to alternative, new-age medical mumbo jumbo to conspiracy theories to religion to college education to popular social misconceptions to big foot to politicians and government programs…

Well, here’s an idea they haven’t done yet, but which they ought to do, because it’s tailor-made for this show:

(UPDATE: They did an episode about polygraphs shortly after I wrote this post. Their research team, I’m sure, had already been hammering out the details when this post went live. Interestingly, they never got to most of the points I mention here. I guess lie detecting really is a huge load of bullshit.)

Lie Detectors

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