It's OK, Ark. Quickfix is right. I don't belong in his polygraph world.

Polygraph "testing" depends both on the ignorance of the examinee, as well as that person's fear of the odious examination process.

In retrospect, it was foolish of me to think I could bring significant change to the polygraph indu$try by advocating for a test-taker bill of rights, as well as calling for a countermeasure challenge series.

Both of those initiatives would have had deleterious effects on the polygraph indu$try, which is mainly about money.

Scientifically speaking, polygraph "testing" is a sick farce. As Doug Williams has said for decades, polygraph "testing" is a psychological billy club. Implementing a bill of rights for polygraph test-takers would be akin to running that billy club through a wood chipper.

Clearly, the polygraph indu$try's values are not my values. I have come to accept that immutable fact.

My only regret is that I did not succeed in bringing the polygraph indu$try -- particularly the American Polygraph Association -- to a higher level of ethical standards.

But hey, I tried.