Yes, it turns out our moral compass is as easy to fool as, well, a non-moral compass. Scientists at MIT conducted a study in which they pointed a magnetic wave "behind the right ear" of volunteers ... The scientists were apparently trying to test their hypothesis that the back right is the part of the brain that's responsible for telling right from wrong. Well, in case you're bad at pattern recognition, the participants who had their moral centers magnetized demonstrated an impaired ability to tell the difference between right and wrong. The scientists found that subjects could have their morality wiped in half a second...
