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<em>As a child of World War Two who remembers its limitless horrors, my revulsion at the practices of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib was so great that it took me a while to realize the more positive implications: if our henchmen used waterboarding, a practice so primitive it placed us in the same hateful historical imagery as the caves of the Inquisition and the cellars of the Nazi, this can only mean that all the fancy interrogation drugs developed in classified labs in the 60s and 70s have failed: there is no truth serum. We should be relieved about that.</em>

Jacques Vallée, computer scientist and ufological philosopher, presents an interesting take on contemporary torture methods over at <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/18/waterboardings-curio.html" target="_blank">Boing Boing</a> in the first of what will hopefully be a series of guest posts.

Thanks David Pescowitz!