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[rwac]

Blood pressure drug 'reduces in-built racism'

A common heart disease drug may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study suggests.


The beta-blocker drug can reduce 'subconscious' racism, the Oxford University study found.

Researchers found that people who took propranolol scored significantly lower on a standard test used to detect subconscious racial attitudes, than those who took a placebo.

Propranolol is most often used to reduce high blood pressure by lowering the heart rate, as well as angina and irregular heartbeat. It is also used to manage the physical symptoms of anxiety, and control migraine.

http://www.telegraph...ilt-racism.html

[niner]

Researchers found that people who took propranolol scored significantly lower on a standard test used to detect subconscious racial attitudes, than those who took a placebo.

Interesting, and makes perfect sense. "Built-in" racism is just fear of 'the other'. PropranoloI will tamp down the physical manifestations of those fears, so they will not be as noticeable. There's a feedback loop involved in fear, where the physical sensations heighten the mental effects, which then jack up the physical sensations...

[hooter]

"Their small study took 36 white student volunteers"




1) The study is racist in itself.
2) I know someone on propanolol and he said all it does is make him 'hate niggers more'



How about they spend their research grants on something pertinent....

[Turnbuckle]

Interesting, and makes perfect sense. "Built-in" racism is just fear of 'the other'. PropranoloI will tamp down the physical manifestations of those fears, so they will not be as noticeable. There's a feedback loop involved in fear, where the physical sensations heighten the mental effects, which then jack up the physical sensations...

I agree with this completely. There's a cardiac feedback loop that works with hate as well as fear, any emotion that gets the heart racing. I take propranolol for hypertension and I also do some public speaking, so I can attest to how well it works.