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What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction
A few weeks before the release of my first book, a memoir about my mother’s murder, I had to take a polygraph exam. The two things were not in fact related, but that was easy to forget once I found myself strapped in a chair in a windowless room on the …