{"id":3019,"date":"2001-06-16T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2001-06-16T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2021-02-19T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:47:28","slug":"doe-drops-medical-questions-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/16\/doe-drops-medical-questions-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;DOE Drops Medical Questions&#8221; (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Albuquerque Journal<\/em> staff writer John Fleck <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010626093042\/http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/scitech\/361488scitech06-16-01.htm\">reports<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Department of Energy has halted a controversial policy of asking medical questions of nuclear weapons scientists as part of its spy-hunting polygraph tests.<\/p><p>Instead of asking medically related questions, the department&#8217;s new policy now places the burden on workers being polygraphed, requiring them to reveal before taking the test any &#8220;medical or psychological condition&#8221; that might affect the test&#8217;s outcome, according to a memorandum from the department&#8217;s chief of counterintelligence.<\/p><p>The new policy did not satisfy the polygraph&#8217;s leading critic, who called it worse than the one it replaced.<\/p><p>That is because there is no way for employees, or their physicians, to find out what medications or medical conditions might influence a polygraph&#8217;s outcome, said Sandia National Laboratories scientist Al Zelicoff.<\/p><p>That leaves employees in an untenable position, with no way to tell what medical or psychological information they ought to reveal to the polygraphers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albuquerque Journal staff writer John Fleck reports. Excerpt: The Department of Energy has halted a controversial policy of asking medical questions of nuclear weapons scientists as part of its spy-hunting polygraph tests. Instead of asking medically related questions, the department&#8217;s new policy now places the burden on workers being polygraphed, requiring them to reveal before &#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-3019","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\/3019","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=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}