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Well I'm not qualified to say. But I would note that many authoritarian regimes that could use drugs in interrogation routinely if they wished to, do not do so
by retrac 4y ago
Well I'm not qualified to say.
But I would note that many authoritarian regimes that could use drugs in interrogation routinely if they wished to, do not do so. In the USSR, the KGB did use sodium thiopental in interrogations, but very rarely. And while China's security apparatus might use it sporadically in secret, but it's not a part of routine criminal questioning there even if they need some drug kingpin to crack or whatever. Other kinds of torture are far more widely used. I suspect drugs really are quite unreliable and not very useful in practice. That was the CIA's conclusion decades ago re: sodium thiopental, LSD, marijuana, amphetamine, mescaline, etc. They tried everything and it was all rather disappointing for practical use.
- graderjs 4y agoYes, so given various coercive techniques--physical, psychological, chemical--are to some extents unreliable, what are the best methods for truth finding? I get if you're not qualified to say, no worries! But I can tell you have knowledge / interest so I'm keepin' probin. :) ;p ;xx ;p haha. I heard somewhere that various forms of scopolamines can make people very agreeable. I wonder what else is used? Maybe they used "e-headsets" with the AI image analysis/ AI brain analysis as like a "suped up" polygraph (like the machine used against the Russian informant at the beginning of Salt)