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Skepticism, Censorship And The Polygraph
George W. Maschke writes "Paul M. Menges, the federal polygraph examiner who teaches the countermeasure course at the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute, has written an article in the American Polygraph Association's quarterly journal, Polygraph, in which he calls for the criminalization of public speech about polygraph countermeasures (methods for passing or beating a polygraph examination). His proposal would ban books like AntiPolygraph.org's popular free e-book, The Lie Behind the Lie Detector. I have written a formal response to Mr. Menges' commentary."
If there are ways to defeat polygraphs, then what makes this DoD guy think that polygraphs are in any way valid?
The bad guys will just use those countermeasures. The good guys might 'fail' when they should have passed.
In other words, by attacking countermeasures, this guy is actually attacking the so-called "science" of polygraphs.
Too bad they can't ban my built-in fascism detector. It's going off right now.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.