{"id":5081,"date":"2025-05-01T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2025-05-01T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:58:11","slug":"of-polygraphs-and-e-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/01\/of-polygraphs-and-e-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Polygraphs and E-meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scientology_e_meters_green_black_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scientology_e_meters_green_black_cropped-1024x701.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scientology_e_meters_green_black_cropped-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scientology_e_meters_green_black_cropped-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scientology_e_meters_green_black_cropped-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scientology_e_meters_green_black_cropped.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Scientology E-meter (Wikimedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>ClearanceJobs.com director of content <a href=\"https:\/\/news.clearancejobs.com\/author\/lindy-kyzer\/\">Lindy Kyzer<\/a> and former security clearance attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/news.clearancejobs.com\/author\/sean-bigley\/\">Sean Bigley<\/a> discussed the similarities between the U.S. government&#8217;s polygraph screening practices and the Church of Scientology&#8217;s practice of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E-meter\">E-meter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auditing_(Scientology)\">auditing<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/security-clearance-careers-podcast\/id1039825235\">ClearedCast<\/a> podcast. See Kyzer&#8217;s write-up <a href=\"https:\/\/news.clearancejobs.com\/2025\/04\/30\/why-polygraphs-should-only-be-used-for-spiritual-purposes\/\">here<\/a>, where you will also find a link to the entire 13:37 long conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClearanceJobs.com director of content Lindy Kyzer and former security clearance attorney Sean Bigley discussed the similarities between the U.S. government&#8217;s polygraph screening practices and the Church of Scientology&#8217;s practice of E-meter auditing for the ClearedCast podcast. See Kyzer&#8217;s write-up here, where you will also find a link to the entire 13:37 long conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[625,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-5081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-polygraph","8":"tag-e-meters","9":"tag-polygraph-screening","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","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=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}