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Canadian Supermanliness, parts one and two.

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I have this suspicion that it came up somewhere in H. Beam Piper's work, as he made frequent use of an infallible lie detector. I sure can't recall where, though.

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It got used in a number of places but the trial in Little Fuzzy may be what you are thinking of.

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