Batman, you write in part:
Quote:George M's life experience with failing a polygraph resulted in his forming a very anti-polygraph point of view, which ultimately resulted in this site.
This is not quite correct. When I failed my FBI pre-employment polygraph examination despite having told the truth, I was dumbfounded. I couldn't believe it. But it didn't directly cause me to form an antipolygraph point of view. My polygrapher had told me that the polygraph was 98% accurate. I naively believed him, and supposed I must have fallen within the 2% margin of error of an otherwise valid test.
It was only after reading David T. Lykken's seminal book on polygraphy,
A Tremor in the Blood: Uses and Abuses of the Lie Detector that my position against polygraphy solidified. I was outraged to learn that my government had branded me as a liar based on a procedure that has no scientific basis whatsoever. Whereas I had adhered to a code not to lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do, my government (through an FBI polygrapher) had deliberately lied to me, just as it continues to lie to every single employee or prosepective employee it polygraphs. And I had no avenue of appeal.
For several years, I bit the bullet. I said nothing publicly. I had no idea how many others had been similarly affected. That changed in 1999, when I found the website NoPolygraph.com and linked up with other polygraph victims, who are much more numerous than I had supposed. I was at first reluctant, but ultimately felt compelled to take a public stand against the fraud that is polygraph screening.
A year later--and after much research, correspondence, and cooperation with others--I co-authored
The Lie Behind the Lie Detector and helped to launch AntiPolygraph.org.
So, in some sense, my experience in failing a polygraph "test" ultimately led to my forming an antipolygraph viewpoint and the establishment of this website. But it was not so direct a path as your post suggests.
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