{"id":2944,"date":"2001-03-30T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2001-03-30T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:02:16","slug":"lie-tests-too-personal-lab-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/30\/lie-tests-too-personal-lab-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lie Tests Too Personal, Lab Scientists Say&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Albuquerque Journal<\/em> staff writer John J. Lumpkin <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010405120444\/http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/290586news03-30-01.htm\">reports<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Some scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are charging that lie-detector tests started in the wake of the Wen Ho Lee case have become a little too personal.<\/p><p>Polygraphers are asking scientists about their medical histories, including what medication they take, said Al Zelicoff, a medical doctor, physicist and one of 26 senior scientists at Sandia.<\/p><p>Zelicoff said labs director C. Paul Robinson has threatened to withdraw from the Energy Department&#8217;s polygraph program if the medical questions aren&#8217;t stopped.<\/p><p>Sandia spokesman Bruce Fetzer said only that the matter is &#8220;in discussion about the extent to which (the questions) are appropriate.&#8221;<\/p><p>The polygraphers ask the medical questions because the medications could affect the test, Fetzer said.<\/p><p>Not true, says Zelicoff, adding senior Defense and Energy Department officials have acknowledged no medications could affect polygraphs.<\/p><p>&#8220;You are dealing with a bunch of scientists here, and they know the difference between science and nonsense,&#8221; Zelicoff said. &#8220;They are not putting up with it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albuquerque Journal staff writer John J. Lumpkin reports. Excerpt: Some scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are charging that lie-detector tests started in the wake of the Wen Ho Lee case have become a little too personal. Polygraphers are asking scientists about their medical histories, including what medication they take, said Al Zelicoff, a medical doctor, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[316,287,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-2944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-alan-p-zelicoff","8":"tag-doe","9":"tag-polygraph-screening","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}