re: #26 calochortus

Does anyone have a link to a study showing that torture is effective? Not some anecdotal evidence, or someone’s beliefs, but a study. The studies I’ve seen are (necessarily) few and far between, but they seem to point to the ineffectiveness of torture.
The person being tortured may tell you a lot of stuff, but if most of it is false or irrelevant, it doesn’t really help much. And apparently torture actually destroys your memory.

Although I’d be interested in seeing such a study I think it’s such a charged subject that anyone could produce a study to fit their desired narrative. It also depends on how you define torture. Sleep deprivation, disorientation, heat, cold, humiliation, fear, intimidation etc are common interrogation methods. I assume they work to some extent because they are used commonly and do produce results. Many people would consider it torture to be in solitary confinement like Bradley Manning.