wrote on Sep 4^th, 2002 at 8:26pm:

PDD-Fed, Perhaps a good place for you and your colleagues to begin your journey towards professional status is by denouncing the sort of quackery (publicly and without anonymity), referred to by Damaged in the previous post.  You might then follow closely with a suitably strong denouncement of polygraph screening.  As long as you (collectively speaking) are willing to allow the aforementioned to exist in your midst, you are nothing but tradesmen hoping to benefit through mutual support of any nonsense that suits any one member's financial purposes.

Anonymous,

I never thought I would agree with you on anything, but I more assuredly agree with you on this matter.  ANY polygraph examiner who participates in allowing this profession to be portrayed on T.V. as a circus sideshow, needs to find a new source of employment.  There are far to many professional polygraph examiners fighting the rap put on us by sources such as this site, to tolerate the idiots selling out for publicity, a little cash, and the opportunity to see themselves on T.V.  The problem is that the APA has too little regulatory authority.  Polygraph Examiners should be governed by the equivelent of a state bar association, then problem examiners could be "dis-barred."  I would start with the performing chimps on the talk show circuit and work from there....

PDD-Fed