The sentiments found in the aforementioned "Polygraph Examiner's Prayer" seem to be part and parcel of official APA events.

For example, APA seminars routinely begin with a Christian minister making an invocation to God, essentially asking the Supreme Being to imbue APA members with lie-detection powers.

If polygraph is scientifically valid, are are such supplications to the supernatural necessary?

Then again, it strikes me that the leadership component of the polygraph establishment has, through the years, been a WASP bastion primarily made up of older white guys.

I sincerely hope the rapidly growing international membership branch of the APA takes note of this and becomes more active in APA politics.