| #903204 in Books | 2015-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.20 x5.70 x8.30l,.0 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| The single best argument against the employment of torture based on science rather than politics!|By Steven Kleinman|Shane O'Mara has written an extraordinarily timely and well-supported argument against the employment of torture. Torture continues to be a topic of contentious debate, one unfortunately shaped by emotions and anecdotes rather than informed by reason and science.||Offers a passionate and informative riposte to those who feel a ‘war on terror’ justifies barbarism. (Hayden Murphy The Guardian 2015-12-26)
Shane O’Mara’s book is a rebuttal to the torture memos that came out a few ye
Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does.
In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed as a harsh necessity. If cruelty can extract secrets that will save lives, so be it. CIA officers and others conducted torture usi...
You easily download any file type for your device.Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation | Shane O'Mara. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
