Category: waterboarding

Finally, we have the definitive word on torture: It has a deleterious effect on the hippocampus, the frontal cortex, and memory. The phony idea that torture elicits good information is based on "folk psychology and folk neurobiology."

Folk neurobiology? What's that? Neurobiology discussed around a campfire? What neurobiological changes afflicted the magic dragon Puff, I wonder, when the kid grew up and didn't come back?

Maybe this isn't the definitive word after all.

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