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  • Can a pill 'cure racism'?

    03/09/2012 10:47:23 AM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 25 replies
    Yahoo! News/The Week ^ | March 9, 2012 | The Week's Editorial Staff
    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...