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b'Learn how to cheat a polygraph test. Ex-cop, Doug Williams, says it\\u2019s a lot easier than you think.\\xa0\\nDoug Williams is looking over his shoulder because, since 1979, he\\u2019s been on a crusade to defeat the polygraph machine. In 1996, he started a website called polygraph.com, offering a handbook and one-on-one training teaching people how to pass the test.\\xa0\\n\\n\\u201cThere is no Pinocchio response. Your nose does not grow when you lie.\\u201d Doug Williams, polygraph critic\\n\\nAccording to Doug Williams, a lie detector test is about as accurate as a coin toss. He claims the machine doesn\\u2019t work, and as a result, innocent people are paying the price.\\xa0Many innocent people have pleaded guilty and skipped trial because they failed a polygraph during an interrogation.\\xa0And employers routinely administered polygraph tests as part of their hiring process. If you fail a lie detector test in the US federal government, you\\u2019re potentially placed on a blacklist and never allowed to apply for that government agency job again.\\xa0\\n\\nDoug Willams says that the polygraph is just a stage prop used to scare people. How does he know this? Because he spent most of his law enforcement career using it as what he calls a psychological billy club. To him, it was just a tool to beat a confession out of a bad guy. But over the years, he realized that a polygraph test is just that\\u2026 a test. It can be cheated. And he would devote the rest of his life to destroying it.\\xa0\\n\\nDoug Williams made a career giving people polygraph exams. Now, he\\u2019s going to prison for teaching people how to cheat the test.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\nFOLLOW PRETEND ON YOUTUBE:\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@PretendPod\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'