wrote on Feb 21^st, 2003 at 11:28pm:

My question is to anyone who follows this site. Will pre-employment polygraph tests ever be banned? If so, what will it take, and how long will it be?

That's a very good question, Anon.  No one knows, though we're working to get it banned; there are entrenched interests to overcome.

The National Academy of Sciences recently released a comprehensive review of polygraphy and polygraph screening, concluding that screening is entirely inadequate and should be abolished.  I don't know if the DoE (the folks who requested the study) have taken the results to heart; we'll have to see.

I rather think that it will eventually go away, much like we no longer torture people accused of a crime.  Society evolves, in some ways faster than others.

Skeptic