S7:E5 Lie Detectors

Original Air Date: Jul 23, 2009

Polygraphs are used in thousands of investigations and job screenings, but can a machine really detect whether someone is lying? Penn and Teller meet people whose lives were ruined by faulty lie-detector results.

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