[PoorMuttly]

Really GOOD operatives fool Lie-Detectors, too. It won't ever, ever work. There are already many people around who will be able to defeat this stuff should it ever arrive. That's without drugs...which could mask a multitude of things.

Move along. No story here.

[Mulder]

It won't ever, ever work

You're correct that it won't work for the stated purpose (keeping Abdul from boarding a plane).

But it will work quite well for advancing the emerging police state dictatorship.