Who was Cleve Backster?
History tells us of many a (wo)man whose brave and bold vision was way ahead the rest of the scientific community. People who made astute observations that was perceived as a threat to the traditional establishment, deemed preposterous or heretical, deluded and deranged, whose research papers were condemned to the graveyard of disputed scientific opinion. One such a man was Cleve Backster. Backster was a former CIA lie-detector specialist who helped to develop the polygraph techniques that are still in general use today by the U.S. military and government agencies who recorded his observations after finding a unattended polygraph recording from the office plant he used to attach the allegator clips in between the recordings he performed while testing the validity of the polygraph. Whereas his findings were ridiculed as the wishful thinking of a wannabe scientist and ludicrous inventor he approached the curious recording the unattended polygraph had measured with the diligence and atten