U.S. government addiction to the pseudo-science of lie detection never dies. So once again I’ll resurrect my 1986 article “The Truth About Lie Detectors” in Discover magazine, which has lost none of its relevance over the years.
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U.S. government addiction to the pseudo-science of lie detection never dies. So once again I’ll resurrect my 1986 article “The Truth About Lie Detectors” in Discover magazine, which has lost none of its relevance over the years. Plus ça change department: My “Letter from Washington” in the January 2004 Harper’s might need a few tweaks to refresh the news pegs, but otherwise it could have run last week.
A new documentary from Unity House films televised by Channel 4 public broadcasting in the UK. It presents the American cultivation of German scientists and engineers after WWII, whose Nazi Party affiliations and war crimes were whitewashed by U.S. government agencies. [please note: due to a film editing error, the “he” in my comment […] A generous, soft-spoken source of practical sense amid the Byzantine cacophony of the military industrial complex. Unquestionably an eager young participant in the headlong race of Cold War nuclear weapons development—more a Gyro Gearloose, perhaps, than a Mr. Peabody, though he could do both—he nonetheless recoiled from abject fantasies like Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” system […] A “dome” to defend the American homeland from missile attacks is just as fanciful today as it was in 1983, when Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative “Star Wars” dream. Iron Dome, a catchy Israeli moniker for a very limited system, has now morphed into Golden Dome, which at least accurately expresses the protective […] And where better to be a dreamer of space weaponry than the last place on Earth still enthralled by the Nazi “rocket scientist”? Screenshot Hawk-eyed reporter, digital age soothsayer, hunt country escapee, rare friend in the NYT Washington bureau shark tank. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/nyregion/david-burnham-dead.html
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