Lie-detector

If you don't believe me, give me a lie-detector test.

No one denies that a certain amount of rough treatment is meted out to prisoners at police stations, especially those who have been difficult or dangerous to arrest and have previously assaulted the police. But there is nothing here to compare with the ‘brain-washing’ of totalitarian regimes, or the frequent use of so-called lie-detectors or truth drugs, as used in America.

Certainly [Thaddeus] Bulgarin’s world of the future, with its prefabricated buildings, dehydrated food, self-propelled cars, sea farms, lie-detectors and emotion-analysing machines, was a very advanced one even by early nineteenth-century standards (Vaslef, 1968, p. 37).

Apart from the disclosures in the New York Times (27 April 1966) and in several issues of Ramparts, there is an outstanding study by Christopher Lasch, “The Cultural Cold War: a Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom”, in Towards a New Past, ed. B. J. Bernstein (New York, 1968) which addresses itself especially to as much of the history of Encounter as can be discovered without the use of lie-detectors.

Simon and his best man were sitting in the den watching one of the news channels. A pr flack was defending the use of Sanderson MedTech’s new lie-detectors in screening job applicants.