During the election campaign and, if elected, at random intervals thenceforth, each candidate is strapped into a harness and lowered into a giant test-tube full of a combination of drug test solutions, for a period of several days.
-- FlyingToaster, Nov 04 2013

MRI lie detectors are supposedly infallible http://www.noliemri.com/
[theircompetitor, Nov 05 2013]

it's funny that this always comes up. But do we really want politicians that always tell the truth? Liar, Liar comes to mind :)
-- theircompetitor, Nov 04 2013


What I want is not a politician who tells the truth so much as one who will listen to it.
-- Alterother, Nov 04 2013


No there has to be a simple machine that indicates the truth is either 1) out there 2)in here. Objects placed in the device including politicians get one out of the two indicator lights.
-- rcarty, Nov 05 2013


There is. Might be fun to imagine a congressional session like this. Or the President doing the State of the Union from one of these
-- theircompetitor, Nov 05 2013


Better to alternately immerse them in vats of concentrated acid and concentrated alkali, and see if they change colour.
-- 8th of 7, Nov 05 2013



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