News tagged with interrogation techniques

Interrogational torture: Effective or purely sadistic?

While government officials have argued that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are necessary to protect American citizens, the effectiveness of such techniques has been debated. According to a recent study, when torture ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 23

Evidence of medical complicity in torture at Guantanamo Bay

Inspection of medical records, case files, and legal affidavits provides compelling evidence that medical personnel who treated detainees at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) failed to inquire and/or document causes of physical injuries ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

US doing 'scientific research' to boost interrogations

An elite US interrogation unit will conduct "scientific research" to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 11

CIA's 'Enhanced Interrogation' Techniques Were Counterproductive

(PhysOrg.com) -- The author of a new report suggests the belief that harsh interrogation and torture techniques are effective is a form of folk neuroscience that is not supported by scientific evidence, and does not fit with ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 30 weblog




Search results for interrogation techniques


Plump up the clay: Carbon dioxide moves into and expands a common mineral in carbon sequestration caprocks

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have direct evidence that high-pressure carbon dioxide or CO2 migrates into the clay montmorillonite causing it to expand, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Tasting carbon with WAFT'ed light: New instrument analyzes tiny samples at low pressure and temperature

(Phys.org) -- When delving into the nuances of carbon dioxide, a new instrument designed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory "sips" the sample and reveals information about the source of ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can a machine tell when you're lying? Research suggests the answer is 'yes'

Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

UB team's software is set to eyeball liars

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study team at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, is working on video analysis software to analyze eye movements to spot liars. So far, they say their results show that ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

New surface nonlinear spectroscopy capability: Picosecond-femtosecond broadband sum frequency generation system

In Dr. Hongfei Wang's spectroscopy laboratory at the end of EMSL's main hallway, the lights are always off. Because the instrumental capability his team has built uses lasers as its main weapon, light interference ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

History shines through the glass

“All glass is beautiful,” Belgian researcher Patrick Degryse said, gently turning a delicate, Roman-era vessel, its bluish sheen glowing under the fluorescent lights of the Semitic Museum’s ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why police sketches sometimes don't work

When they were investigating the series of attacks on women in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, police stopped dozens of black or Latino men who were thought to resemble a face in a forensic sketch. The image of a ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plankton fossils tell tale of evolution and extinction

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying the fossils of tiny ocean-dwelling plankton, called foraminifera, have uncovered another piece in the puzzle of why species evolve or become extinct.

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Tiny silicon-oxygen-based polyhedron enters cellular nuclei to light them up selectively

Nuclei are complex, well-defined organelles carrying genetic information that is critical to the cell. Visualizing these organelles through fluorescence imaging techniques promises to reveal the mechanisms ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cracking a tooth: 3-D map of atoms sheds light on nanoscale interfaces in teeth, may aid materials design

Teeth and bone are important and complex structures in humans and other animals, but little is actually known about their chemical structure at the atomic scale. What exactly gives them their renowned toughness, hardness ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


List of search results for interrogation techniques