wrote on Jun 26^th, 2002 at 5:00pm:

Ok, since you have corrected my spelling and are cleary much more intelligent than I, let's just assume I really don't know why Dr. Horvath said what he did.  Please enlighten me...

Polycop,

Although your question is directed to beech trees (Dave), I'll address it. The obvious reason for Dr. Horvath not to have provided Deseret News reporter Ed Bauman with an honest explanation of comparison/"control" questions is that to do so would expose polygraph "testing" for the pseudoscientific charlatanry that it is. It is not surprising that Dr. Horvath has not responded to my public challenge to him.

The very survival of your profession depends on the public not knowing what a probable-lie "control" question is. Which is why when polygraph "professionals" talk to reporters, they routinely feed them the same false and misleading information about the nature of the procedure that they provide their subjects. If they told the truth, the polygraph house of cards would collapse.

AntiPolygraph.org is putting an end to the polygraph community's ability to deceive jouralists (in the way that Dr. Horvath apparently did) and get away with it.