Bill Adama Terminates His Polygraph Test

The final episode of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica features a flashback scene wherein the lead character, Bill Adama (played by Edward James Olmos), is sitting for a pre-employment polygraph "test." Offended by the accusatory nature of the questioning, he finally says "Enough with this crap!" and terminates the procedure.

Thanks to Sidamo for mentioning this scene on the AntiPolygraph.org message board:

https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1237687740

The lie detector is as much a science fiction fantasy as are the Cylons of Battlestar Galactica. There is no device that can reliably detect deception in humans. Polygraph "testing" depends not on science, but on the naïveté, gullibility, and fear of the person being "tested." Enough with this crap! Educated yourself.

For a brief overview of the folly that is polygraphy, give the AntiPolygraph.org homepage a quick read:

http://antipolygraph.org

And for a thorough debunking of this pseudoscience, see our free e-book, The Lie Behind the Lie Detector (1 mb PDF):

http://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf

For more about the urban legend of the colander used as a lie detector, see our video, "Of Colanders and Lie Detectors":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJvh0GFNUrE

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[welshblad1]

surely they didn't know cylons could imitate humans then

[Beerbottles123]

@SternMann93 I knew that

... from the last episode

[SternMann93]

@Beerbottles123 Actually he didn't. That was his brother, who died before he was born.

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[KuDastardly]

@Replicatorz

Really? Hmm, what I got out of it was that as Adama was launching out from Galactica for the last time, he thought back and realized that the decision he made to remain in the Colonial Navy may have helped to insure the survival of the entire human race. What would have had happened if Adama had taken the job offer knowing that he would bare no consequences of a result of his answer.

[Beerbottles123]

i wonder if the younger adama did steal money from cash draw, he did hang out with the ha'latha mafia when he was little.

[DEFkon001]

I learned the hard way. I was accused of a crime I didn't commit, and asked to take a Poly multiple times, each of which I was told I failed. Young and scared, I turned down there "deals" time and time again. Eventually I resigned myself to whatever fate the failed system would inflict upon me, and told my tester that his job was done, and he had a right to his opinion, but I would not confess to a crime I did not commit, it would be a lie. I've never seen a man fight so hard to remain composed.

[SwobyJ]

@Coraxuss Well I know that now from Caprica lol, but my point stands.

[Coraxuss]

@SwobyJ

No biggie, but actually Bill was actually native-born Caprican with a Tauron background, it was his father who was actually a native-born Tauron.

[dragonofblood]

Adama is the man.