{"id":5758,"date":"2005-11-07T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2005-11-07T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T14:59:31","slug":"the-amazing-human-lie-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-amazing-human-lie-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"The amazing human lie-detector"},"content":{"rendered":"

These Republican doctors-turned-lawmakers sure do know some interesting tricks. Bill Frist, for example, can use an hour of family videotapes to challenge the diagnosis<\/a> of doctors who have examined a severely brain-damaged patient in person. Tom Coburn, meanwhile, can use his medical training to tell if someone is lying, just by looking at them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coburn during John Roberts hearings: I’ve tried to use my medical skills of observation of body language to ascertain your uncomfortableness and ill at ease with questions and responses. I will tell you that I am very pleased both in my observational capabilities as a physician to know that your answers have been honest and forthright as I watch the rest of your body respond to the stress that you’re under. (End videotape)<\/p>\n

Tim Russert: Do you believe as a physician you can tell whether a candidate for the Supreme Court is telling the truth?<\/p>\n

Coburn: I think you can certainly tell when they’re ill at ease with a subject and sometimes telling the truth or not. I think you can do that. I think you can do that — anybody can be trained to do that — by body language, respiratory avoidance responses. Yeah, I think you can.<\/p>\n

Russert: And have you used those skills to make judgments like that?<\/p>\n

Coburn: Mm-hm, I certainly have.<\/p>\n

Russert: Has any — have you ever detected someone lying?<\/p>\n

Coburn: Uh-huh, lots of times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

C&L, of course, has the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, obviously this is pretty silly. Doctors receive all kinds of training, but they aren’t human lie detectors. But my favorite part of the exchange came when Coburn tried to use a little medical jargon to make his remarks seem more reasonable. He said, specifically, that he measures “respiratory avoidance responses” to see if a judicial nominee is telling the truth during a confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n

I’m not a physician, but I do have access to Google. There doesn’t appear to be any such thing as “respiratory avoidance responses<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These Republican doctors-turned-lawmakers sure do know some interesting tricks. Bill Frist, for example, can use an hour of family videotapes to challenge the diagnosis of doctors who have examined a severely brain-damaged patient in person. Tom Coburn, meanwhile, can use his medical training to tell if someone is lying, just by looking at them. Coburn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}