Torture Doesn't Work and Here's Why

Extreme pain and stress can actually impair a person's ability to tell the truth.

While we wait for Dick Cheney, the Pentagon, or the CIA to release evidence that "enhanced interrogation techniques" produced useful, truthful intelligence that could not be obtained without torture, neuroscientists are weighing in on how likely torture is to elicit such information—and they are not impressed. Full Story »

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Ben Ross
2.2
by Ben Ross - Oct. 4, 2009

This article is whitewashing the issue of torture...Don't scientist and reporters believe in law enforcement? The only important neurochemical study concerning torture is the sick minds of executioners and their media apologist .

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