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Complete Misnomer. As a result of such congressional blasts, the polygraph-happy Defense Department now reminds subjects of their Fifth Amendment right to silence and requires their written consent before using the lie box. In private industry, labor arbitrators usually bar firing when evidence of wrongdoing is based solely on lie-detector tests or refusal to take them. New laws also forbid the tests as a condition of employment in six states (Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington). J. Edgar Hoover calls the name lie detector "a complete misnomer" because the gaugers are totally incapable of "absolute judgments...
...when it came to forming a national compact, none of the 13 colonies felt themselves provinces within the new nation. Each state joined the union as an act of consent, not of compulsion, and each, as the tide of nationhood moved westward, came to think of itself as more self-reliant than its brothers to the East...
...chiefly by working-class votes ended the most cherished right of the British worker: collective bargaining. The order changed Britain's present, voluntary wage-price freeze to a mandatory system with prison sentences and fines for anyone who dared pay higher wages, or mark up prices, without official consent. Wilson's aides made clear that even after the manda tory freeze expires next year, some kind of government control of wages and prices would most likely continue as a permanent part of British policy...
...apparent parallels to an incident involving the real-life Hill family, whose home had been invaded by escaped convicts. Citing inaccuracies, Hill won a $30,000 New York award under a privacy law that may sometimes make even honestly erring news reports actionable if the subject did not consent to the story and the publisher's "sole" aim was to boost circulation. Al though the case was argued last term, with Lawyer Richard Nixon appearing for Hill, the Supreme Court took the unusual step of ordering reargument next week before issuing a decision...
...Surgeon General asks that the explicit consent of the subject be given in all human experiments. He perhaps does not realize that this would invalidate a number of psychological tests. If an experimenter asks a subject for permission to deceive his sense of perception, the subject will go into the experiment looking for the trick. This obviously distorts his normal reactions and makes his observations worthless. Explicit consent is essential only for potentially dangerous experiments...