{"id":4072,"date":"2003-10-17T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:25:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:25:26","slug":"teller-on-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/17\/teller-on-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Teller on Polygraph&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/\">Project on Government Secrecy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/news\/secrecy\/2003\/10\/101703.html\">comments<\/a> in his <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/news\/secrecy\/index.html\">Secrecy News<\/a> e-mail publication: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>TELLER ON POLYGRAPH<\/p><p>In the perennial dispute over the legitimacy of polygraph testing as a tool for security screening of government employees, the late physicist Edward Teller sided with his scientific colleagues at the national laboratories in opposition to the polygraph.<\/p><p>&#8220;Together with many others, I believe that its negative effects &#8230; by far outweigh the conceivable advantages [and] the rather dubious evidence that the tests may give,&#8221; Teller wrote to the Secretary of Energy.<\/p><p>Teller&#8217;s October 27, 1999 letter on polygraph was obtained by researcher\/reporter Michael Ravnitzky under the Freedom of Information Act. See:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/othergov\/polygraph\/teller.pdf\">http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/othergov\/polygraph\/teller.pdf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20031008122015\/http:\/\/www-hoover.stanford.edu\/bios\/teller.html\">Dr. Edward Teller<\/a> (1908-2003), a past director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, led the development of the hydrogen bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists&#8217; Project on Government Secrecy comments in his Secrecy News e-mail publication: TELLER ON POLYGRAPH In the perennial dispute over the legitimacy of polygraph testing as a tool for security screening of government employees, the late physicist Edward Teller sided with his scientific colleagues at the national laboratories &#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":[287,492,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-4072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-doe","8":"tag-edward-teller","9":"tag-polygraph-screening","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","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=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}