Today the Supreme Court declined to hear my case.
Disappointing — but the larger issue remains: polygraphs measure stress, not truth, yet careers and lives can depend on them.
Even though federal agencies are exempt from the protections Congress created for private employees under the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, their employees still deserve due process and equal opportunity before being punished.
This isn't the end. It's another step.
I’ve begun reaching out to investigative reporters and will continue advocating for awareness and reform.
#EPPAforALL
@Alladdin1983 Sick jokes.
The US Congress created the Employee Polygraph Protection Act to make using them illegal.
Exempting the government from the law is misguided.
"The U.S. government’s misplaced reliance on the pseudoscience of polygraphy undercuts national security while each year needlessly causing career harm to thousands of applicants and employees."
@CNNSOTU Nobody should be required to take a polygraph test: they're junk science, as confirmed by the National Research Council. Instead, the federal government should scrap its reliance on the pseudoscience of polygraphy for all purposes.
Polygraphs are junk science - no better than flipping a coin at detecting lies. The National Academy of Sciences proved it decades ago, yet police still use them. Full episode public! #DebunkedAndDissected#Polygraph#JunkScience
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@ewnupdates People are either ignorant or naïve (or both) to believe the polygraph is a reliable way of determining if someone is telling the truth or not.
@NomceboMasilel2 Even if the polygraph operator does everything by the book, polygraph chart readings carry no weight, because the underlying procedure has no scientific basis: https://t.co/7z9fs67Yjx
In some rare good news on the polygraph front, The Steve Wilkos Show, which for years promoted public belief the myth of the lie detector, has been canceled: https://t.co/N2Q7QRiLNV
@TheTicoTimes Someone needs to inform her that when it's used for screening, the polygraph is wildly inaccurate. Does she plan on punishing people who don't "pass" it?
Ignoring science, the new 39-year-old president of Costa Rica is attempting to combat corruption through the magical thinking of polygraphy: https://t.co/1XrGQkz51p
Ignoring science, the new 39-year-old president of Costa Rica is attempting to combat corruption through the magical thinking of polygraphy: https://t.co/1XrGQkz51p