retcopper wrote on Jul 10
th, 2006 at 2:39pm:
Thank God you are a Canadian. I believe the people here in the USA are sensitive to handicapped people because of our hearts not becasue of any political correctness garbage.
As an analogy to the poly and the way the interrogator works and assumes results, FC is highly instructive. It is another fraud, though perhaps not as insidious as the polygraph. The "examiner" (mom/dad) is deluding only themselves, at no cost to society, and so the myth damages far less...
However, in FC, as in the poly, the examiner seeks to justify his results by arbitrary, unsupported, and outlandish assumptions and techniques- which, as currently constructed, cannot be objectively tested through the scientific method. The parent or examiner makes an assertion, demonstrates his case
ex parte, and then is resistant to anyone attempting to dissect the results or seek an alternative explanation.
The victims in FC, if you wish to call them that, are the poor kids who are gaining nothing and having their lives and time wasted on a fallacy. That time could be used in physical or proven mental therapy.
Incidentally, for retcopper the pro-polygraph guy and anyone else wondering, I have the utmost sympathy and compassion for autistic children and their families. I hope they find a treatment tomorrow for this awful affliction. I -do-, though, state facts and observations about their physical movements, grasp of reality, and state of mind. This is to drive home a point, and bluntly, not to insult them. I will not use euphemisms. "Mentally challenged" or "physically challenged" are not in my vocabulary. It's retarded and handicapped, and FC is a sham and another sad lie. It is a falsity, drawing in victims as does polygraphy.
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/images/devel/e_helped.gif http://www.alaskacoinexchange.com/Stamps%2034/04c%20Employ%20Handicapped.jpg Check them out. I include these to try to create an atmosphere, at least on this thread, free of pro-poly doublespeak
The victims in polygraphy, who are true victims, are society (who has to pay for a magician's trick), the agencies who get duped into believing that the poly really works, and the examinees who are falsely accused and/or browbeaten and/or denied job opportunities as a result of the polygraph's shortcomings. There have even been reports and posts on here of people getting in trouble with their parole officers over erroneous adverse results...
Spoken without apology... 8)