Something Like Truth
November 10, 2006
When a male prostitute outed evangelical leader Ted Haggard last week, the media were suddenly faced with a he said-he said scenario. And so they turned to their favorite arbiter of truth: the polygraph machine. Despite its track record, nothing offers the promise of impartial, mechanical justice like the lie-detector. Brooke talks with UCLA law professor Jennifer Mnookin about the persistent popularity of the polygraph.
