Trying to keep a secret - a hypothesis

[Kanamori]

I hesitate to say what I would do under incredible pain. I don't know, I've never been tortured. I've had a broken bone, nearly a 3rd degree burn, and really that's about it. I would try to hold out, but frankly, the basic human instincts in the unconcious of our brains are related to human survival in response to incredible pain and fear. My guess is that it would take decades of practiced meditation to hold out.

People have thought all sorts of things for millenia and been terribly wrong.