Posted on 03/09/2012 10:47:23 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Sure, it sounds crazy. But researchers at Oxford University believe that a common heart medication actually quells your subconscious prejudices.
We think of racism as "a product of our culture and of ignorance," says Cassie Murdoch at Jezebel. "But silly us, maybe all we really need to do is take a pill." That's what a team of Oxford University researchers concluded after giving volunteers propranolol, a beta blocker commonly used to treat heart disease, and finding that the test subjects who took the drug became less likely to exhibit "subconscious racism." Has science really stumbled upon a pill that can "cure racism"? Here's what you should know:
How was this study conducted? Experimental psychologist Sylvia Terbeck and her team gave two groups of 18 volunteers either a placebo or a dose of propranolol, then put them through a battery of tests designed to gauge racism, such as matching "positive and negative words and pictures of black and white individuals on a computer screen." More than a third of the propranolol takers scored negative, meaning they showed little subconscious racial bias; none of the placebo-takers scored negative.
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Look for the left to add this to our water in addition to fluoride - which is the active ingredient in Prozac.
If so, Obama and his mentors should start taking these pills immediately.
They wouldn't dare! Because they know Obama would lose all the blacks that voted for him just because he was of the same skin color as them.
I heard that its a little black pill.
::snifffffff:
Yep, SMELLS like boolshite...
Give these guys a bigger research grant! < /s >
The drug had no measurable effect on "explicit racial bias."
Sounds like all the “volunteers” were white.
Of course all the test subjects were white. Only white people can be racist. Now if only they had a pill that cured the mental illness called liberalism.
Government says, “If you can’t shut’em up...drug’em.”
Hot dog! Quick - give it the Obamas and their supporters!
bttt
Good God! Yet another reason to avoid all drugs at any cost. We moved here to the hinterlands the year that SA decided to put floride in the water-now I hear that many want the city water company to stop adding it, because of safety oncerns. Meanwhile, my water is as nature provides it, purified by a small Britta-type unit in my garage.
Nope. But there is a pill that grows in piles in some states that is supposed to make you smarter.
:)
Does this pill make everyone the same color?
Only lead ones....
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