• New-school Techniques

    From warmfuzzy@700:100/0 to All on Sun Jan 7 23:54:25 2018
    There are two new techniques to gatering information from people being interrogated. The first is scopolamine, it can be cultivated for about $10
    USD by harvesting it from a certain plant and enriching the seeds of the
    plant. You loose self-control and there is an amnesiac effect that makes you forget what just happened. Literally you can blow scopolamine dust into the face of a victim, get them to clean their house off all expensive items into your truck and have them not remember a thing about it. It acts sort of like cat-nip but for people. It doesn't need to be injested, just inhaled and it lasts for over a half-hour per dose.

    The second technique is to use a PET scan of a person's brain to see if they are lying. A person who is telling the truth will have only a certain area
    of their brain light up. A person who is lying will have that same certain area light up with the addition of another area lighting up. The first area
    is the memory and language centers, the second area is a filtering area that
    is used to suppress the first brain area. So telling the truth will light up less areas than lying, and no "really good liars" are immune to this
    technique as its brain activity and not the dampening of the peripheral
    nervous system (the nerves).

    The best way to avoid these techniques:

    scopolamine: stay with friends when going to the bar and stay away from criminals.

    pet scan: don't say anything under interrogation, neither the truth nor a lie

    Further Reading:
    The Truth About Scopolamine and Burundanga Poisoning for Crime:
    And How The Poison Eliminates Free Will
    By T. Rothschild
    Paperback $40 from Amazon

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  • From danly@700:100/3 to warmfuzzy on Tue Apr 3 15:56:13 2018
    The rubber hose technique is cheap, reasonably effective, and doesn't require either horticulture or expensive medical equipment.

    Cheers,
    -Dan

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