Joakim
This is just wrong... If u need to take a pill to respect other people then ur just a bigger racist than the average person. "im just gonna take this pill, and then il respect you for who you are"... man...
Adrian Calderon
I 140% agree with the comment above
agulesin
Can we feed some to Sarkozy without him noticing?
@Joakim - fully agree...
grouvhy
perhaps it just lowers one's anxiety so other anxiety lowering drugs should have the same effect
Hmmm...
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Your Master
Utter lunacy. I would rather die than take this crap.
CarlosBandido
hey - The cure for facism
PeetEngineer
I strongly doubt that this drug specifically sedates subconscious racist sentiment, more likely it simply meters aggression and, as the article states, fear - as these are the principle emotions driving any prejudice. So maybe it has a similar affect on homophobia too?
If the effects are really so profound in reducing aggression, and thus prejudice, then perhaps perpertrators of hate crimes should be medicated with it!
Bruce Bell
One thing they failed to mention is that its a beta blocker as well. I use to use it for cluster headaches. When you first start taking it it really is hard to concentrate and takes about a week or two before that side effect is completely gone. So I can see it doing this during the first few days of taking it but after that your back to being your nasty old racist self.
solutions4circuits
Our psychologist, Dr Terbeck, ducked out of the tough program, biology, for the easy one - psychology. Genes are predisposed towards traits that are beneficial as well as reinforcing desirable traits in mating behavior. Beneficial overrides racist, gene replication, bias in humans. Since both male and females must exhibit these traits, it's not gender-biased. To say a pill affects morality, yet has no affect on religious, sexual, or abuse morality makes this study a joke. Racism is inherent in biology, in genetics. Go to any Asian country, many that do not have the Western guilt or PC, as a white person and you'll be a "victim" of racism. Racism plays out in the selfish replication of the genome and its immortality, but to label racism as morality when it is merely a socially undesirable trait, which then somehow makes it morality, is dead wrong and biologically igorant and perverted. It's too bad PhDs can't get revoked for bogus scientific practice by those with borderline fine arts degrees.
Page Schorer
I lot of you folks do not seem to have a clue as to what the implicit preference test measures. It is NOT a measurement of racist attitudes, it measures implicit preference. It is perfectly possible to lack racist attitudes and still have racist preferences and visa-versa. The measure is physiological not attitudinal. I am not going to bother rehashing how it works, read about it. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/background/faqs.html