Study: New Drug May Curb Racist Thoughts

This proves that you can create a 'study' to say or pretend to prove anything you want.  Notice the number and make up of the participants.  Doesn't look very scientific to me, and I know a little about how these studies are supposed to be conducted.

Stolen from Weasel Zippers:

Study: New Drug May Curb Racist Thoughts -  Barack & Michelle not interested.

(The London Free Press) — A common prescription drug used to treat high blood pressure may also curb racist thoughts, a new U.K. study suggests.

University of Oxford researchers found people who took the drug propranolol showed less implicit racism — automatic, subconscious bias — than those who took a placebo.

Half of study participants were given the drug and the other half received a placebo. They were given prejudice tests before, during and after taking the pills. Participants were asked to quickly categorize positive and negative words with the faces of back and white people.

Although just 36 white men and women took part in the study, it provides new evidence about the processes in the brain that shape implicit racial bias, co-author Sylvia Terbeck said.

“Given the key role that such implicit attitudes appear to play in discrimination against other ethnic groups, and the widespread use of propranolol for medical purposes, our findings are also of considerable ethical interest,” she said.

 

According to MedicineNet.com:

Propranolol is a beta-adrenergic blocking agent that is used for treating high blood pressure, heart pain (angina), abnormal rhythms of the heart, and some neurologic conditions. Examples of other beta-adrenergic blockers include metoprolol (Lopressor), atenolol (Tenormin), and timolol (Blocadren).

 

There is more at The Telegraph, but doing a quick search I cannot seem to find the actual link to the study results.  Gizmodo thinks this is "ridiculous":

The findings, if proven out, would be really great in theory, but probably pose an infinitely innavigable morass of regulations and cable news yelling. A lot of the latter to do with racism-killing pills eliminating most of cable news’s content, but whatever. How would you even begin to prescribe this drug—especially against someone’s will? I’ll tell you how: GOVERNMENT-BACKED MIND CONTROL INITIATIVES.

Oh well, you can't please  everyone, and apparently there is still no cure for Liberal bias or false claims of racism.

 

Comments

[Grouch at Right Truth]

36 subjects? Laughable!

[The Watcher]

OTOH, if racism is a 'disease' (which will be the next illogical conclusion these 'researchers' will jump to), now racists can whine, 'It's not my fault, I'm SIIIIIIIICK!'

[R.J. Godlewski]

Isn't this the same university where ethicists said that parents can kill their own children???

[reb]

Snake Hunter Opines:

There will always be racism. The most overt occurred in 2008 when over 96 percent of our Black People voted SKIN over MLK Jr's call to vote for the "Content of a Man's Character" over the color of his skin. Hah! Nobody was listening, and we chose badly!

>>

There will ALWAYS BE HATRED
and dicrimination against against "lesbians & gays", and I've Never Understood why two hairy-legged men must think it's fun to jump in bed for 'Sex Games", and why this odd phenomina is fair game for Evangelicals to whip up emotions at election time about the Contraception Pill.

IRAN Wants The Bomb, And We Stupid Americans Buy Muslim OIL at $110 per barrel. Explain that!

Long after the elections are past, faggots will be kissing in public, blacks will be voting Black, and Catholic & Protestant Adult Women Wiil Be Swallowing "The Pill" by the Billions.

reb
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[GoneWithTheWind]

Can we get a prescription for Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Jessie Jackson?

[Liberal Bias]

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