In the article by Jeff Kluger “The Evil Brain: What Lurks Inside a Killer's Mind” Kluger seeks to answer the long forgotten question, When a heinous crime is committed, Why would anyone think of doing this? One might believe that this as a conscious decision, it may not always be the case Science has proven that tumors or other medical issues may be a factor in people’s wicked acts of evil. Charles Whitman was a mass murderer that killed 17 people and injured many others back in Texas in 1966. “An autopsy was conducted and investigators found both a tumor and a vascular malformation pressing against his amygdala, the small and primitive region of the brain that controls emotion. A state commission of inquiry concluded that the tumor might have contributed to the shootings.” (1) Though we always have some control over our emotions and our actions, what happened to Charles Whitman was not his fault, he was under the impression that he was doing the correct thing, now this does not justify the actions of the man, it gives some kind of redemption.…show more content… More proof of this has been found afterwards when the case of a Pedophiliac school teacher arose, he had pedophilia related thoughts and was reported by his wife, whose stepdaughter he tried to touch, he had a tumor in his brain, once he got that taken care of, his pedopheliac thoughts went away, but like clockwork when the tumor returned, so did the urges. “Doctors scanned his brain and found a tumor the size of an egg in the right orbitofrontal cortex, the region that processes decisionmaking and other so-called executive
