Pierce’s posterous

The problem, he says, is that stress hormones actually make it less likely that someone subject to abuse can accurately recall information, so that such abuse ends up "destroying the very memories they're supposed to recover." And it can even result in false memories taking the place of real memories - and the person being abused not being able to distinguish between them.

Just like I have trouble believing that the economics of death row vs. life imprisonment aren't going to abolish the death penalty, I have little hope that science will be persuasive enough to convince torture fans that it doesn't work, is never a good idea and is, in fact, a moral corrosive.