The truth, the whole truth and nothng but....

The brilliance of language is that it both enables us to communicate effortlessness, transport ideas and create poetry. Yet at the same time it can be used for the basest kind of lies and deception. How do we know which is which and when we are bing lied to as well as when we create our own "tangled web?" Truth detection expert Pamela Meyer, in her new book Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception, gives us a chance to change the odds in our favor in our pursuit of truth. My conversation with Pamela Meyer: var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-6296941-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}