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An annotated exposé of the pseudoscience of polygraphy, with chapters on its validity (or lack thereof), federal polygraph policy, polygraph procedure, and countermeasures (techniques for passing or beating a polygraph "test"). We did not write this book to make money. We are making it available via Amazon for the lowest price that authors may choose. You can download it for free in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI (Amazon Kindle) formats directly from AntiPolygraph.org. Polygraph "testing" has no scientific basis. It is a pseudoscience devised by interrogators, not scientists. In this book, we explain the scientific shortcomings of polygraphy and review the harm that the United States government's misplaced reliance on it, especially for applicant and employee security screening, has caused (and continues to cause on a daily basis). We also reveal the polygraph community's "trade secrets" that the public is not supposed to know about, with citations to the U.S. government's own documentation that it uses to train its own polygraph operators. We reveal the trickery (not science) on which polygraph "testing" relies. We also explain in detail how anyone—truthful or not—can pass or beat a polygraph "test." Our purpose is not to help liars evade justice or obtain employment for which they are not qualified, but rather to afford those who find themselves compelled to submit to polygraph screening with a means of protecting themselves against the random (and frequent) error associated with this invalid procedure that is wrongly called a "test."