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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 18 October 2013 05:33:34AM 1 point [-]

and is often worse and less reliable

Could you provide evidence for this claim?

Comment author: shminux 18 October 2013 04:28:41PM *  0 points [-]

Going by the links on Wikipedia. A quote:

FM 34-52 Intelligence Interrogation, the United States Army field manual, explains that torture "is a poor technique that yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say what he thinks the interrogator wants to hear."[4] Not only is torture ineffective at gathering reliable information, but it also increases the difficulty of gathering information from a source in the future.