Alien Abductions & Lie Detector Tests: Some Thoughts.
When someone asks me anything about my abuse by an ex-husband, all the things measured by the LDT are amped up, which means anything I say when asked about that time would register as a lie on an LDT because the post traumatic stress creates the fight or flight response when recalling it. The LDT would register my words as lies because it’s measuring stress responses.
1. No one who is hooked up to an LDT is stress free. They’re there to prove something, which is stressful.
2. PTSD from trauma creates stress responses even without being hooked up to a strange device (the LDT).
It’s pretty obvious, if you think a little bit, that asking a person about traumatic events (which, by all accounts, an alien abduction experience is) while they’re hooked up to an LDT will fairly consistently give you false results. About the only thing it’s good for is being cruel to those who experience Very Strange Things (such as alien abductions, etc.); profound, inescapable abuse (prisoners of war, children who survived intense abuse for the first decades of life); or any other traumatic personhood altering experience. But not for proving anything happened or did not happen. Lie Detectors are just torture devices that are unable to demonstrate the TRUTH of anything, while setting up an already anxious person to have their worst fears ( such as ‘nobody will believe me’) validated.
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I’m actually really interested to see what the Space Orcs/Humans Are Strange Crew will make of this observation of mine. Have we thought about what would happen if someone who’d been abducted (for good, bad, or indifferent) ended up working on an alien ship and how would the aliens react to their PTSD related to whatever other species did to them? And how other humans without any awareness of the presence of alien cultures treated them? How will the aliens react to discovering that this crazy pack bonding species actually treats those species mates who have radically different life experiences are shunned and abused for it in some circumstances?



















