[loup-vaillant]

The inquisition was effectively a judicial body. They were religious representatives and burned witches for questionable reasons, but their… questioning did force quite a few false confessions if I recall correctly.

This has little to do with your Sunday Priest.

[psunavy03]

See above. What people did 400 years ago is not relevant to my point about how things are today.

[elevatedastalt]

It is. Because the point GP / OP are making isn't that we are doing inquisitions today, but rather that the human psychology behind confessions has long been wielded as a tool.

[loup-vaillant]

OK, back on topic then: do you even dispute the main point, that today false confessions are being coerced out of suspects in Western precincts?