Very interesting, Amos. Thanks for sharing that information. Research based finding like this are essential to convincing those that participate in torture, or who justify torture on moral or patriotic grounds (the ends justify the means thinkers) of it's ineffectiveness and unreliability.

In the current and recent conflicts between the West and the Mid-East, when Westerners are arrested or taken hostage and submitted to torture or coersion, we are quick to understand that "confessions" they may make under duress have no validity, and we have no trouble dismissing and/or forgiving what these captives may say in order to survive, physically or psychologically, but do not accept the same is true for "enemies" who are tortured or otherwise coerced.