re: #27 Killgore Trout

What is the evidence that torture produces results? That is exactly the sort of study I was asking for.

You assume it works because people use torture. People use torture because they assume it works. If it does, there should be evidence. The fact that a tortured person will sometimes tell you what you want to know is not evidence of torture’s effectiveness unless you can show that it equals or outperforms other methods of obtaining intelligence.