[toenail]

My gripe here is that NewsMax think's it's newsworthy for someone to decline to take an unreliable, subjective test. If they were reliable, I might agree with you, but there's a reason they're not admissible in court. This is a non-story.

[Travis McGee]

They are not perfect, and can be beaten by some people with special training, and by certain conscienceless psychopaths, but they are a valuable tool.

The NSA and CIA use them day in day out as a term of emplyment to check for undeclared foreign contacts etc.

[goody2shooz]

I actually got out of the Navy because I didn't want to take a polygraph, required for duty at NSA (Fort George Meade). I am fully aware they are unreliable.

But these three young men ARE NOT APPLYING FOR SECURITY JOBS NOR COMMITTED ANY CRIME. In other words they have no reason to avoid proving the truth of what they said and did in Shoneys.

Things look good if they pass, and if not, who cares?