The question of the polygraph?

[Brietta]

The man who 'does' the polygraph tests for a daytime television show "Trisha" offers the Drs McCann a polygraph test?? and there are those who think that is OK.

Oh well it takes all kinds I suppose.

[mercury]

Are his tests all wrong then?
Or do you have some antipathy to DOCTORS being lie detected

Lets face it Brietta docs commit  as many crimes as anyone  else

[G-Unit]

The man who 'does' the polygraph tests for a daytime television show "Trisha" offers the Drs McCann a polygraph test?? and there are those who think that is OK.

Oh well it takes all kinds I suppose.

He also did the test on Adrian Prout, which led to a confession. Not bad going. What's wrong with Trisha anyway, she's just the Oprah of the UK, isn't she?

[mercury]

He also did the test on Adrian Prout, which led to a confession. Not bad going. What's wrong with Trisha anyway, she's just the Oprah of the UK, isn't she?

OMG did he?
But obviously he is not good enough for the mccanns

LOL good one

[G-Unit]

OMG did he?
But obviously he is not good enough for the mccanns

LOL good one

Prout's girlfriend arranged it in a bid to prove his innocence (she believed in him). It had the opposite result however. Prout then confessed and Eddie was proved correct.

The McCanns lost two chances to 'demonstrate their innocence' then. The reconstruction and the lie detector test.

[mercury]

Prout's girlfriend arranged it in a bid to prove his innocence (she believed in him). It had the opposite result however. Prout then confessed and Eddie was proved correct.

The McCanns lost two chances to 'demonstrate their innocence' then. The reconstruction and the lie detector test.

OMG never knew all that! Thanks!

[Benice]

The man who 'does' the polygraph tests for a daytime television show "Trisha" offers the Drs McCann a polygraph test?? and there are those who think that is OK.

Oh well it takes all kinds I suppose.

I can just  imagine the response from some sceptics if the McCanns failed a lie detector test.   Lie detectors would be hailed as the best invention since 'the wheel', and the result would be claimed as 100% proof of their guilt -  and that lie detectors are infallible.

On the other hand :

If they passed the test sceptics would claim it proved zilch -  as it is a well known fact that lie detectors are not infallible and that some people can 'cheat' it.      And of course there would be those who would immediately claim it was a fix.

AIMHO.

[Alfred R Jones]

I can just  imagine the response from some sceptics if the McCanns failed a lie detector test.   Lie detectors would be hailed as the best invention since 'the wheel', and the result would be claimed as 100% proof of their guilt -  and that lie detectors are infallible.

On the other hand :

If they passed the test sceptics would claim it proved zilch -  as it is a well known fact that lie detectors are not infallible and that some people can 'cheat' it.      And of course there would be those who would immediately claim it was a fix.

AIMHO.

Bang on the nail.

[pathfinder73]

I can just  imagine the response from some sceptics if the McCanns failed a lie detector test.   Lie detectors would be hailed as the best invention since 'the wheel', and the result would be claimed as 100% proof of their guilt -  and that lie detectors are infallible.

On the other hand :

If they passed the test sceptics would claim it proved zilch -  as it is a well known fact that lie detectors are not infallible and that some people can 'cheat' it.      And of course there would be those who would immediately claim it was a fix.

AIMHO.

If you don't answer police questions there's no way you would do a lie detector. If SY came back to them and said one suspect refused to answer questions about your missing daughter I wonder what Kate's response would be 

[ferryman]

Anyone here who says that, in identical circumstances to the McCanns, they would have answered those questions is lying, pure and simple.

[Benice]

If you don't answer police questions there's no way you would do a lie detector. If SY came back to them and said one suspect refused to answer questions about your missing daughter I wonder what Kate's response would be 

There is no connection between the two IMO.

Kate did not refuse to answer questions because she didn't know the answers   - she followed the advice of her lawyer.   Not much point in having a lawyer in a foreign country where you don't understand the law and he does - and then ignoring his advice.   Especially when you both know the Policemen questioning you are attempting to pin a crime on you that you didn't commit.

What is so difficult to understand about that?


     

[G-Unit]

Lie detector tests are used in court in the US. They are used for confirmation when investigators suspect someone of lying. Anyone with enough life experience can spot a liar, the difficulty lies in proving it. Pointers exist; shifting in your seat, changing the subject when asked a question, touching your head, not using eye contact, changing tenses when answering questions, using unnecessary words for emphasis and 'distancing' from the subject (saying 'you' instead of 'I', for example).

[pathfinder73]

There is no connection between the two IMO.

Kate did not refuse to answer questions because she didn't know the answers   - she followed the advice of her lawyer.   Not much point in having a lawyer in a foreign country where you don't understand the law and he does - and then ignoring his advice.   Especially when you both know the Policemen questioning you are attempting to pin a crime on you that you didn't commit.

What is so difficult to understand about that?


   

Robert Murat refused his lawyer's advice and answered all questions. He was cleared.

[Mr Gray]

Lie detector tests are used in court in the US. They are used for confirmation when investigators suspect someone of lying. Anyone with enough life experience can spot a liar, the difficulty lies in proving it. Pointers exist; shifting in your seat, changing the subject when asked a question, touching your head, not using eye contact, changing tenses when answering questions, using unnecessary words for emphasis and 'distancing' from the subject (saying 'you' instead of 'I', for example).

lie detectors confirm nothing....the McCanns do not have to demonstrate their innocence....they have not been arrested or charged...SY consider them not suspects....because there is no evidence to charge them you are trying to build acase based on innuendo and junk science,,,signs of desperation

[stephen25000]

you have lost your argument by a mile

Oh dear.

 

P.S. You do realize by know it was nothing to do with Trisha  ?

Mccann backers like you can argue all they like, but the fundamental truth remains, they could have done a lie detector and they didn't.

Just like the reconstruction.