To be fair, in the US we did ban admission of polygraph evidence in court, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of problems they and other psuedoscientofic “investigation” techniques create.
I think that while a lot of reasonable people know that lie detectors are bunk, a surprisingly large number of people don’t know that at all - and many of the people who seemingly know better still haven’t actually confronted what that knowledge means. Like if you say to someone, “I took a lie detector test”, it lends credibility to what you’re saying for a lot of people even though it shouldn’t lend any at all.
Take this out to the whole world of phony pauedoscientific criminal investigation techniques, and the number of people in a world poisoned by shows like CSI who would rightly support banning such things is going to be shockingly low, even though everyone with knowledge on the subject can probably tell you that’s what should happen.
So that’s why there’s no public pressure to do it really. Add to that the fact that law enforcement doesn’t want their psuedoscience taken away from them because they see it as a useful tool in getting convictions, and any politician who tries to take this issue on is going to be acting alone against entrenched power for basically no political gain.
I feel the same way. I think it’s just because the TNG films wanted to turn Picard into Kirk and frankly Patrick Stewart can’t carry an action scene (neither can any of the rest of the TNG crew tbh). The TNG cast would have been perfect to do a plot about space whales or a dangerous anomaly flying towards Earth, but they kept trying to do The Wrath of Khan instead.
Also a pox on everyone who says that Motion Picture or The Search for Spock are bad.
After the network showed a clip of a young conservative activist saying that climate change was the number one issue for young voters, Fox News moderator Martha MacCallum asked for a show of hands in response to her question, “Do you believe human behavior is causing climate change?”...
I think they do serve a purpose, but not everyone on the stage was aware of what that purpose actually was. The purpose was to audition to be Trump’s new VP pick since he’s definitely not going with Pence again.
Why aren't lie detectors considered a political issue?
This might sound like an odd question, but hear me out....
Why were the TOS movies better than the TNG movies?
(Not including the reboot trilogy as that’s a different altogether topic)...
The GOP has a master plan to criminalize LGBTQ people ( www.damemagazine.com )
Some quotes:...
The Fox GOP debate melted down when the word “climate” was mentioned ( www.motherjones.com )
After the network showed a clip of a young conservative activist saying that climate change was the number one issue for young voters, Fox News moderator Martha MacCallum asked for a show of hands in response to her question, “Do you believe human behavior is causing climate change?”...
Landlords should have to pay income tax on their rental properties regardless of whether they're rented out or not. ( gothamist.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/12162...