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Old Jan 2, 2002 | 3:02 pm
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GregLeg
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The thermal camera correctly picked out 75 percent of the 'guilty' individuals and 90 percent of the 'innocents', a control group who had no knowledge of the mock crime.</font>
Let's see, so out of every 100 people boarding a plane asked if they're carrying a bomb, 10 of them will be flagged as lying? I wouldn't consider that acceptable.

(Yes, I know I'm distorting facts to say what I want, but isn't that what the media's been doing all along? )
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