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Scientist Organizes Resistance To Polygraphs
George Maschke writes "Brad Holian, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is using a blog to organize resistance to plans for random polygraph and drug testing of Lab scientists. Holian writes: 'Polygraphy is an insulting affront to scientists, since a committee of the National Academy of Sciences has declared that, beyond being inadmissible in court, there is no scientific basis for polygraphs. In my opinion, by agreeing to be polygraphed, one thereby seriously jeopardizes his or her claim to being a scientist, which is presumably the principal reason for employment for many scientists at Los Alamos.'"
From the amount of security breaches at Los Alamos I've read about, I figure anyone's pricipal reason for working there is to take secrets back to their Masters in China, France, Isreal, Russia....
Having extreme right guy marked as foe? Yes.
Getting shivers from the thought of viewing the world as a huge liberal conspiracy? Yes.
Reading a post by the aforementioned guy in which his beliefs dominate what he sees? Priceless.
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