> Defense attorneys, in particular, used biological evidence like brain scans to argue that their clients should receive lighter sentences.

Counterintuitively people want negative traits be rooted in biology. That the soul is a victim of the faulty flesh, instead of lacking willpower or being responsible for ones actions.

The article really doesn't hold back: one of the subheadings is "Picking up where phrenology left off".

Yesssss. And now to extract the evil, concentrate it and reinstall it at will!

Muahahahaha!!!

"Did you take that test yourself?"