By contrast they insisted on substantial evidence in each case that the professor had in fact in the classroom or in his published research hewed to the party line in an unscholarly fashion.
Its content mainly includes the confession of a suspect or a defendant to acknowledge a crime and his exculpation to declare himself innocent or guilty of a venial crime.
Albus never attempted to deny that his father (who was to die in Azkaban) had committed this crime; on the contrary, when I plucked up courage to ask him, he assured me that he knew his father to be guilty.
The APA also reported that there is evidence to suggest that typical polygraph examinations detect deception better than chance, but with error rates that can result in failing to detect guilty people.