More and more media figures are now figuring out that waterboarding — oops, I mean “enhanced interrogation procedures” — IS torture. To their credit, they aren’t taking anyone’s word for it — but trying the procedure themselves.

The latest is WLS radio shock jock Erich ‘Mancow’ Muller, who concluded the “procedure” is “way worse than I thought it would be” after subjecting himself to the controversial practice live on his show recently.

“I want to find out if it’s torture,” Mancow told his listeners, adding that he hoped his on-air test would help prove that waterboarding did not, in fact, constitute torture. With a paramedic on hand, Mancow was placed on a 7-foot long table, his legs were elevated, and his feet were tied up.

As NBC News reported, “Turns out the stunt wasn’t so funny. Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop. He only lasted 6 or 7 seconds.

“It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke,” Mancow said, likening it to a time when he nearly drowned as a child. “It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back…It was instantaneous…and I don’t want to say this: absolutely torture.”

Playboy.com journalist Mike Guy also recently underwent the procedure and came to the same conclusion…and last year, Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens endured the same experiment — and came to a similar conclusion. The conservative writer said he found the treatment terrifying, and was haunted by it for months afterward.

“Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture,” Hitchens concluded in his article.