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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.'"
Why is being a "scientist" held in such high regard. I'm a principal scientist on my project, but that doesn't make me too good to go through the same screening process as the "lowly technicians." I say good for him, stick it to the man, in the meantime ride your high horse somewhere else to find employment.
People who think they know everything really piss off those of us that actually do.
Im so sick of the entitlement "blah blah blah" BS in this country. If you dont like the rules for employment, you are completely free to find another job. Follow the rules, or dont and suffer the consequences. Thats how it works. Next.
"Extreme Right Wing" means either that he once saw you fail to accuse Bush of being Hitler, or fail to see the war in Iraq as an absolute disaster.
It is "well known" that that is all you need to label someone as an extreme right winger, regardless of the rest of their beliefs. You can in fact otherwise be 100% liberal, but fail to be "pure"; see Lieberman for someone pretty darned close to that, if not actually there.