- They Demanded a Polygraph, I Offered fMRI

By August 2012 their lawyer tried to corner me into a polygraph. Polygraphs do not measure deception, they measure stress. That matters, because I was under enormous stress from their bizarre pornographic accusations, (accusations that are now proven to exist only in Ray and Marilynn’s heads). Even the American Psychological Association has made it clear that polygraph results are unreliable. Accuracy is barely above chance and the test can be beaten with simple countermeasures. Yet their attorney insisted that in fifty years he had “never run into what I believe to be inaccurate results,” as if an anecdote from the Great Peter Langrock (LOL) could outweigh empirical data.

At the same time I had been offered a functional MRI lie detection scan, fMRI, at no cost. fMRI looks directly at changes in brain activity rather than guessing through blood pressure or sweating. Controlled studies have shown up to ninety percent accuracy, far above anything a polygraph can claim.

Their attorney refused it. He wrote back dismissing the fMRI as “a $4000 plus evaluation on a process which I have no familiarity with.” That excuse was fiction on two levels. My scan was free, and his lack of “familiarity” could have been solved in an afternoon by one of the dozens of associates and paralegals working in his office. It was not ignorance, it was avoidance.  They demanded the weakest test and ran from the strongest. Because… they made the whole thing up!

Here’s the letter: