Study Finds Heart Disease Drug Combats Racism
Talk about bias, labeling and discrimination...I had hopes the likes of David Duke would have been accompanied by King Shabazz and Louie Farrakahn....they even called them 'White people' instead of the appropriate term Caucasian.
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More race baiting from the corporate media, that never happens.:rolleyes:
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What a waste of time and effort. While at IOBC in 1979 a bunch of walked into a soul food restaurant in Phoenix City and got "treated".
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Hey, cool! Give it to all those haters like the followers of Derrick Bell and Farrakhan, then.
Land sakes! Wonder if you could use estrogen treatment to cut down on the He-Man Woman Haters like Limbaugh and his ilk, too? (Not the liberal woman-haters, though-they're just comedians.) |
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All joking aside this could be the first step in getting racism classified in the DSM, and like ADHD this diagnosis would bring in a windfall of cash to the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/stor...1#.T2CUxfX2U8A |
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You get a cluster of New Black Panthers or some Nation of Islamites to do it, then we'll see what happens. Or is "racism" now defined as only practiced by whites? |
wait a minute...think this through: if us crackers can get this classified as a "disease" under the DSMV, the gravy train will park in our driveway as nothing would be our "our fault". Its the fault of government and we'll need Gubmint assistance; preferred admissions in elite schools and colleges; job preferences; contract set-asides for us poor racist, ignorant crackers; never having to admit that we might just be a stupid, ignorant cracker lacking a work ethic as everything will be someone else's fault. We won't have to produce; can't be fired and can coast to the highest positions of government based upon "cracker-heritage" alone. Our wife can get her pay tripled for a no-show job.
Wow...the possibilities are endless. :lifter |
I just read the full research manuscript and, although the research tools are (apparently) valid, I'm not impressed that the conclusions are supported by the small number of patients. Propranolol is a beta-blocker, a medicine that blockes the effects of epinephrine/norepinephrine (think adrenaline). Low heart rate is one of the dose-limiting effects of propranolol as a blood pressure medication, hence the "significantly lowered heart rate" in the link in the OP.
The researchers gave patients either propranolol (the adrenaline blocking medicine) or a placebo (sugar pill) and asked them to report their "feelings" towards pictures of people from other races and/or religions and towards words associated with people of other ethnicity/religion. The findings rely on the hypothesis that subliminal cues from adrenaline affect your gut-reaction opinion of others. I'm not familiar with the methods used, but they are apparently validated tools in their field of research. I also don't think they tested enough patients to make any clear conclusions. I also think the work would be more validated if they included study participants from multiple ethnicities and religions and found the same results from minority participants when they see pictures and/or words related to those from outside their ethnicity/religion. It would also be an interesting finding if people from within the minority group had a similar reaction to people from their own minority. |
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Should we give it to everyone in need of a warm fuzzy? Susan |
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You could probably find a similar effect to positive emotional cues as well - a wink or compliment from a cute gal, for example, but I doubt that study will be performed. |
Probably get the same results if you gave them some pot to smoke
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I was just..........
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So one could assume that since the 'experiment' was exclusive to 'White People' that White People are the main, if not the sole perpetrators of racism throughout the world.....why else would you not include a broader demographic of people. And based on the experiment, IF the pharmaceutical companies can come up with the right pill the Evil White Man and his racists thoughts can be brought under control. |
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