CLASSIC: From the Past to the Modern Day: Does torture actually work?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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It's one of the most ancient practices in human civilization, and one that continues in the modern day. In recent decades experts, military officials and activists alike have argued over the definitions of torture -- and, most importantly, whether it actually works. So how much truth is there to the claims that, while unethical, torture delivers results? What's the Stuff the Authorities Don't Want You To Know about what goes on in those unobserved black sites hidden across the planet? Tune in to learn more.

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0:00.0	You see it all the time in film and fiction. There is a ticking clock and a hard-nosed law enforcement
0:09.7	investigator has to bend the rules, break the lines, perhaps engage in torture for the greater
0:17.6	good. That's what tonight's classic episode is about. That's what the series 24 is all about.
0:24.0	It really is, Matt. It really is. The question, though, is in real life, does torture actually work?
0:32.2	Do all these arguments we hear or heard about places like Guantanamo Bay? Do they bear results?
0:39.2	Hey, listen to the episode. It isn't torture at all. It's quite pleasant. So let's jump right in.
0:44.4	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:51.1	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
1:08.5	Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel, the Iron Maiden Brown.
1:14.6	They called me Ben. We are joined with our returning super producer Paul Deckent and,
1:21.4	most importantly, you are here. You are you. That makes this stuff they don't want you to know.
1:28.0	By the self-described moniker, one of our co-hosts just added, you may sense a bit of foreshadowing
1:37.0	in today's episode. Today's episode is a little dark, but let's get into it with an anecdote.
1:59.6	Voice you just heard was Admiral Jeremiah Denton of the United States Navy.
2:04.2	On July 18th, 1965, his US Navy jet was shot down while leading an air attack over North Vietnam.
2:11.5	He was captured and he remained in the country as a prisoner of war until 1973.
2:18.0	It's quite a long time. Now, after like during that first full year that he was a prisoner of war,
2:24.6	he was interviewed for this propaganda piece, essentially, from the North Vietnamese.
2:31.1	He was filmed being interviewed by a member of the Japanese press. During this interview,
2:36.4	he states several things that you heard. He's getting adequate food and clothing and medical care,
2:43.6	and also that he supports the United States government and all of its actions. That's probably not
2:49.5	something that his captors wanted him to say if it truly was a propaganda piece, which it appears
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