JB, Your post reeks of 'compromise'. The gist of it seems to say that because of the stance many of us take here (simply put, that polygraphy is a psuedo-scientific fraud with no more validity than phrenology, tarot-card reading, or the gazing at entrails), we are somehow allowing our emotions to carry us away, leaving us immovable or closed to reasonable debate from the other side (of which they, curiously, have a two-pronged interest in furthering their own agenda-- money and power). My stance, as noted above, is grounded in the LACK of scientific evidence coming from your side as well as a knowledge of the basis of true sciences. When asked to produce scientific evidence, your side castigates the questioner, invokes specious, crass retorts, employs character assasination, simply clams up and says words to the effect, "I can't tell you, it's a secret", or perhaps worst of all, wrap themselves in a mantle of self-righteous piety because they are involved in the enforcement of laws-- as if such an occupation makes them above reproach and unanswerable to the rest of the populace. Open debate has yet to occur here, but should it somehow begin one day, it could continue from that point until our Sun becomes a Red Giant and envelopes our planet in its Chromosphere. Such debates will never alter the incontravertible fact that polygraphy is not science, is not based on sound scientific principles, and will never be so. Even the suggestion that an astoundingly complex human being could be mind-read through the monitoring of four physiological output (three of which are trifling easy to control) is outrageous in premise. The fact that such suggestions have evolved into a lucrative, powerful industry-within-an-industry resulting in the ruination of careers, families, reputations, and the waste of millions of dollars should anger and motivate anyone with a brain and a heart to speak out against such a travesty. Your soothing tones of compromise, acquiescence, and moderation strike me as sophmoric. Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.-- Barry Goldwater If you don't like the tone of the discourse here, speak to the likes of 'PDD Fed', 'Batman', Polycop', et.al.
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