pailryder, if you're a voting member of the APA -- (only about 20% of the organization bothers to cast a ballot) -- I'd appreciate your support in the week-long election cycle that starts Sunday July 5th.

Please help me reduce polygraph victimization by paving the way for a bill of rights, face the Countermeasure Bogeyman head on with a CM challenge series, and otherwise shake things up in an industry whose insular qualities have mired it in 1950s thinking.

Oh, lest anyone forget that polygraph is seen as much as religion as it is science, I encourage them to read "Polygraph Examiner's Prayer" on pages 44-45 of the APA's May/June magazine.

It reads in part:

"Thank You for blessing me with the
knowledge to recognize truth and
detect deception;
Always help me to remember that my
skills have the power to clear the innocent
and capture the guilty"

And some people wonder why polygraph remains the Rodney Dangerfield of the forensic sciences...