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Don't know about "tub of lard", but I'm around 190#.  I'd like to lose about 20 pounds (it's a work in progress).

Is this the best you've got, Fed?  Honestly, I know of grade schoolers who can do better.

Lord, I hope you're not really on the federal payroll.  It's enough to turn a liberal into a conservative.

Skeptic

P.S. Sorry about the use of multiple-syllable words in my posts -- I know that sort of gets in your way, but it's really hard to avoid.  Check out dictionary.com if you have trouble with terms like "payroll".

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And it's truly remarkable how convenient his showing up and making exactly the same point, rather than arguing his case, is for you...

Skeptic

George and his cohorts sure run when they get a complaint.  It has to be bogus, no one would complain about King George the Great.

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I'm sorry, Amused (or Fed-up Fed, or whatever your name is), what part of anyone's response to "Retao"'s highly suspect claim would lead a reasonable person to conclude they're "running"?

If you, Fed-Up or anyone else from the pro-polygraph side would like to discuss the validity of polygraph testing, we'd be more than happy to do so.

But I don't think you should expect the childish name calling and game playing to invite anything but scorn from normal people.

Picture this: a curious person does a Google search.  On that page they find the link to Antipolygraph.org.  They check it out, and to their surprise, they not only learn that polygraphs are controversial, they learn that it's considered snake oil by most scientists.  They discover that the National Academy of Scientists concluded the polygraph is worse than useless.  They find out that many people have been falsely accused of lying because they failed a polygraph "test".  They note that something called "countermeasures" can be easily learned, and that not a single polygrapher has come forward to try and prove the ability to overcome them, despite having been specifically and publicly challenged to do so nearly a year and a half ago.

Surely, though, this information must be one-sided, right?  So they check out the message boards.  Expecting to find competent, grown up and (at least somewhat) convincing dissent from polygraphers or a one-sided censored forum, they are surprised to discover 1) the message boards are completely uncensored and 2) the only material from polygraphers consists of name-calling, game playing and and occasional hollow boast that is never backed up.  And this is the most convincing thing of all.  In fact, they tell their friends about the site, and inform others around them that the polygraph is bogus.

So, Amused, Fed-up Fed and others: by all means, continue to play games.  Continue to post your childish, content-free insults.  Like the polygraph, you guys are worse than useless for the purpose to which you are allegedly put.

Next to an actual court case, you guys are the best thing for the anti-polygraph cause.

Skeptic

Hopeless.  Utterly hopeless.

Skeptic

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Amused,
You couldn't even get past the very first sentence in my post, so somehow, "besting you" never really occurred to me as an issue.  But now that I think about it, you must be right: you're just too much for me.

Care to discuss the validity of the polygraph, and make it 2 for 2?  Since I'm no match for you, it should be easy.

Skeptic

Twobits/Septic

You jump to unwarranted conclusions.  And as a result you are very wrong.  I am hurt.

Seeker wrote on Jun 9^th, 2003 at 9:44am:


He started it.

Skeptic