{"id":99,"date":"2007-01-01T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2021-02-13T07:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T12:28:51","slug":"los-alamos-scientist-organizes-resistance-against-polygraph-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/los-alamos-scientist-organizes-resistance-against-polygraph-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Alamos Scientist Organizes Resistance Against Polygraph Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><a title=\"Brad Lee Holian\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071026094043\/http:\/\/www.t12.lanl.gov\/home\/blh\/\">Brad Lee Holian<\/a>, a Laboratory Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and fellow of the American Physical Society, is organizing employee resistance against planned random polygraph and drug screening at the lab. Holian, who has worked as a theoretical physicist at LANL for more than thirty years, has publicized his proposal via the blog <a title=\"Just Say \" href=\"https:\/\/lanl-the-corporate-story.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/dear-readers-brad-holian-sent-this-to.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LANL: The Corporate Story<\/a>. Holian writes, among other things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Polygraphy is an insulting affront to scientists, since a committee of the National Academy of Sciences has declared that, beyond being inadmissible in court, there is no scientific basis for polygraphs. In my opinion, by agreeing to be polygraphed, one thereby seriously jeopardizes his or her claim to being a scientist, which is presumably the principal reason for employment for many scientists at Los Alamos&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He proposes that laboratory employees sign a letter to the LANL&#8217;s director along the lines of the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Director Anastasio:<\/p>\n<p>I refuse to be subjected to polygraph testing for any reason whatsoever. Polygraphs are inadmissible in a court of law and have no scientific basis.<\/p>\n<p>Signed,<br \/>\n-Brad Lee Holian (blhksh@comcast.net)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an <a title=\"Energy Department to Reduce Number of Employees Polygraphed\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/energy-department-to-reduce-number-of-employees-polygraphed\/\">earlier post<\/a> on this blog, AntiPolygraph.org expressed the concern that while an announced Department of Energy plan to curtail its polygraph screening program might reduce the number of persons subject to polygraph screening, it might not reduce the number of polygraph examinations administered if random polygraph screening were stepped up to ensure full employment for DOE&#8217;s polygraph operators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Lee Holian, a Laboratory Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and fellow of the American Physical Society, is organizing employee resistance against planned random polygraph and drug screening at the lab. Holian, who has worked as a theoretical physicist at LANL for more than thirty years, has publicized his proposal via the blog &#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":[287,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-99","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-doe","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}