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Here are two videos on torture, and how it doesn't work. The videos explain how torture techniques have been used as braiinwashing techniques to extort false confessions.
One of the most disturbing things to my mind is that these techniques of gaining false confessions are used by intelligence agencies to gain accurate information.
Part 1 of Youtube video by psychetruth called: "Guantanamo Bay, Mind Control, Brain Washing Torture, MKUltra"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IIxrcDcB5s
Part 2 of the above video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8f_-dLYKCY
Definitely worth seeing.
My views on torture are that it would be a very ineffective way of gaining accurate information, because severe trauma and abuse can jumble up people's memories and make them block out parts of their memories. So it doesn't make it easier to remember things and provide accurate information - quite the reverse:
http://www.lawandpsychiatry.com/html/hippocampus.htm
Also, people's memories become more unreliable when they are sleep deprived, starving, or in some cases when they lack medical treatment (because many medical problems can cause memory loss, delirium and confusion:
http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/confusion-memory-loss-and-altered-alertness-topic-overview ). People's memories can also become more unreliable when they are suffering from depression (as a result of torture).
links on how sleep deprivation, depression and poor nutrition increases memory loss:
http://women.webmd.com/news/20030314/sleep-deprivation-leads-to-trouble-fast
http://www.vitaminsdiary.com/relieve-symptoms/memory-loss.htm
Here are two videos on torture, and how it doesn't work. The videos explain how torture techniques have been used as braiinwashing techniques to extort false confessions.
One of the most disturbing things to my mind is that these techniques of gaining false confessions are used by intelligence agencies to gain accurate information.
Part 1 of Youtube video by psychetruth called: "Guantanamo Bay, Mind Control, Brain Washing Torture, MKUltra"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IIxrcDcB5s
Part 2 of the above video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8f_-dLYKCY
Definitely worth seeing.
My views on torture are that it would be a very ineffective way of gaining accurate information, because severe trauma and abuse can jumble up people's memories and make them block out parts of their memories. So it doesn't make it easier to remember things and provide accurate information - quite the reverse:
http://www.lawandpsychiatry.com/html/hippocampus.htm
Also, people's memories become more unreliable when they are sleep deprived, starving, or in some cases when they lack medical treatment (because many medical problems can cause memory loss, delirium and confusion:
http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/confusion-memory-loss-and-altered-alertness-topic-overview ). People's memories can also become more unreliable when they are suffering from depression (as a result of torture).
links on how sleep deprivation, depression and poor nutrition increases memory loss:
http://women.webmd.com/news/20030314/sleep-deprivation-leads-to-trouble-fast
http://www.vitaminsdiary.com/relieve-symptoms/memory-loss.htm