SanchoPanza wrote on Sep 29
th, 2008 at 12:27am:
So Dr. Maschke, You write a book that repeatedly tells the reader that it is OK to lie and tries to teach the reader how to successfully lie, but if someone then uses your advice, obtains release and murders your family, you claim you have no share in the responsibility? That's a pile of fertilizer and you know it.
The Lie Behind the Lie Detector doesn't argue that it's "OK" to lie about relevant issues, nor was it written for the purpose of teaching readers how to successfully lie. We wrote it to educate the public about the risks and dangers associated with this fraudulent pseudoscience and to provide the truthful with a means of protecting themselves against the very serious risk of a false positive outcome.
Perhaps your perspective on this is skewed by the fact that you derive income from giving polygraph tests. Yes, I know, you haven't stated that you're a polygraph examiner. But it's writ large between the lines of your posts.
In your hypothetical scenario wherein terrorists use information from
The Lie Behind the Lie Detector to thwart security measures and carry out a deadly attack, what responsibility would you attach to those who -- scoffing at the scientific consensus that polygraphy is without scientific basis and is not robust against countermeasures -- blithely continue to rely on this pseudoscience for national security purposes?
Quote:It's obvious you value your self annointed position as the anti-polygraph guru more than you value your family. Do they know that?...
Following your logic and using your aforementioned scenario, one might argue that polygraphers who support polygraph security screening despite its lack of validity and vulnerability to countermeasures, value their jobs more than they value their families. But I don't think that's a reasonable argument to make.
Quote:How do you know that Gary Ridgeway didn't use some type af counter measure with a polygraph examiner who was untrained in spotting them. Whose fault would him passing his test be? I'm betting each and everyone of will refuse to point a single finger at whoever gave Ridgeway the advice.
According to Ridgeway's attorney, Eric Lindell, "He didn't do anything special to pass it. He just relaxed."
Quote:I would imagine that you all believe that nothing that has ever happened to you has ever been the result of your own actions. You have a deep seated need to blame others for anything that might be your own fault. You probably blame meter maids for your parking tickets and Leprechans for insufficient green marshmellow clovers in your "lucky Charms"
Or perhaps you have a psychological need to belittle and demean those who have been the victims of polygraphy to rationalize your practice of this pseudoscience.
Quote:I'm going to leave this board for awhile. I'm sure that you will spend the next few days patting yourselves on the back and gloating that you chased me out of here. For the record, the real reason I'm leaving is that your immoral stench would knock a flock of buzzards off of a gut wagon and I am going to seek the company of those who don't make me want to puke. I know that whether I come back 2 days, 20 years or never, 2 things will be guarenteed. #1 Polygraph will still be in use, gaining in popularity and court acceptance and #2 You guys will still be here whining. You couldn't organize the closure of a lemonade stand much less do away with polygraph.
Somehow, I suspect that despite your professed aversion to our "moral stench," you'll continue to regularly peruse these forums.
Quote:DR. Maschke you may delete this post if the truth hurts too much. Although if you do, I would expect you to manufacture some bogus reason for deletion.
You prospectively cast yourself as the victim of censorship. But have I deleted any of your posts here? Ever? No.
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