@Yogi DMT,
When you attempt to experiment with morality in a scientific manner, by, for example putting a person in a moral dillema in order to test their response, you have already subverted your morals by doing so.
So any study on morality, which claims to be truly scientific (using a repeatable experiment) has an immoral foundation. Thus, the so-called scientist's results could not be trusted, as he is immoral and likely to cheat.
This is why we study history in a hermeneutical phenomenological paradigm.
Unfortunately, this makes the study of ethics very difficult and open to misrepresentation and personal bias. This is why religion uses the notion of faith when expressing itself on a moral level. We can only study history with large dollop of faith in the historians. We can only study psychology with a similar degree of unclinical distance, or by immersing oneself into the patients' lives where our own subjective effect is actually part of the process.
Sadly this is why law itself is open to falsehood and corruption and error.
I suppose I am crossing the question a bit, and perhaps I am answering a question "Is morality scientific?"
But on closer examination, one can see that the two questions actually have the same issue at hand, because when one uses science in studying people's lives, the issue of morality, becomes a logical barrier to any precision involved.
Even behaviourism, which merely tries to observe behaviour, often relies on allowing a creature to suffer, rather than helping it (think Pavlov). I certainly would not trust a report by Pavlov as being necesarily honest.
Of course we may try to study minor issues which have little or no morality to them, and then try and infer from these results, what may happen in a serious situation. But inference, albeit useful, is not science, and the extremity between the serious and the non-serious situation is not something that can be ignored.
And its the serious situations whch warrant our attention.
This is where intersubjective experience (philosophy) makes its grand entrance, and this is also where the power of the journalistic novel is so important. And, where the power of shared experience becomes multiplied by the massive power of such wonders as the internet, and the humble word.
