"Polygraph tests are generally highly inaccurate and are considered an imperfect or invalid way to assess truthfulness. Scientific and government reviews (including a 2003 National Academy of Sciences review) have found little basis for expecting extremely high accuracy."
Good enough for Government work, evidently.
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Well....i mean torture used to get a result has also been disproven buuuut its the government we're talking about