{"id":6837,"date":"2016-11-26T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2016-11-26T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:02:06","slug":"official-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/26\/official-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise wonderful conclusion to a kidnapping case, <em><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/25\/us\/missing-california-jogger-found\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> a statement of misinformation by Sheriff Bosenko of\u00a0Shasta County, California, in response to reports that the husband was the initial suspect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It appears he&#8217;s telling us the truth,&#8221; Bosenko told the station. &#8220;Generally, you can&#8217;t trick a polygraph.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, no. The general quote on polygraphs is they&#8217;re correct less than 50% of the time &#8211; you can trust them less than a coin flip. <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/03\/11\/its-appalling-and-yet-i-giggle-a-little\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a little more discussion on the damn things, and that&#8217;ll lead to a <em><strong>Skeptical Inquirer<\/strong><\/em> article.<\/p>\n<p>Just to spread the truth a little further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise wonderful conclusion to a kidnapping case, CNN reports a statement of misinformation by Sheriff Bosenko of\u00a0Shasta County, California, in response to reports that the husband was the initial suspect: &#8220;It appears he&#8217;s telling us the truth,&#8221; Bosenko told the station. &#8220;Generally, you can&#8217;t trick a polygraph.&#8221; Ah, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/26\/official-misinformation\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}