Albuquerque Tribune reporter Ollie Reed, Jr. reports. Excerpt:
Medical questions on mandated polygraph tests are raising eyebrows among some scientists at Sandia National Laboratories.
Rod Geer, a spokesman at the Albuquerque lab, acknowledged today that there is a growing concern among Sandia scientists that polygraph questions about the medications individual scientists take are invasive and inappropriate.
“A number of weeks ago,” he said, “I became aware that there was concern among some of the people who are subject to the test about questions such as ‘What medications are you on?’ ‘How often do you take it?’ ‘When did you last take it?’
“Some Sandians believe those questions have the potential to be harmful to human health and mental health because they go into deep detail about something that people believe should be between you and your physician.”
One such Sandia employee is Dr. Al Zelicoff, who is both a medical doctor and a scientist.
“The polygraph is a cheap parlor trick to convince people that the machine can determine deception so that the polygrapher can conduct a widespread inquisition into personal matters that have nothing to do with national security,” Zelicoff said today.