Feeling racist? Blood pressure pill Propranolol may open hearts and minds

http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america/blogs/sideshow/feeling-racist-blood-pressure-pill-propranolol-may-open-223450211.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=us&.lang=en-us ^

[chessplayer]

A commonly prescribed drug used to treat high blood pressure may have the unintended benefit of muting racist thoughts in those who take it.

A new Oxford University research study found that Propranolol, which works to combat high blood pressure, anxiety, migraines, and a number of heart ailments, affects the same part of the central nervous system that regulates subconscious attitudes on race.

[chessplayer]

How long before every cracker in the country, from 5 years old on up, is forced to take Propranolol?

[AirForceMom]

Put it on the While House menu.

[mkmensinger]

Send a double dose to Eric Holder. He needs it.

[muawiyah]

Moe detailed reports suggest this "racism" stuff is more like Sandra Fluke's musings than any sort of cause and effect.

If anything the drug simply makes you less wary and more susceptible to armed robbery.

[combat_boots]

Hon, that stuff needs to be pumped into DC’s water supply.

And Detroit’s. And S. Chicago’s. Etc.

[Malone LaVeigh]

Soma? Sorry, I despise this administration so much, I’d probably need a truckload of the stuff!

[american_ranger]

Firefly
Serenity

[Glenn]

It's a miracle drug for benign essential tremor.

Leave it alone.

[Malone LaVeigh]

Obama and his goons definitely “affect my calm”. ;-)

[Mercat]

I have mild benign essential tremor and my doc says “IT’S BENIGN!!!!” and didn’t prescribe anything. I just get a bit wobbly when I’m tired. No big deal.

[Pollster1]

Which kind of racism does it work on: the real racism of liberals who don’t believe black people can compete on a level playing field, or the race-card racism of conservatives who are called racist only because they don’t like Obama?

[DB]

Or it could simply block rational judgement towards danger.

[EyeGuy]

VAST majority of alleged “racism” by whites = Objective, clear-eyed assessment of the way things are.

[KarlInOhio]

Does it affect "racism" or does the drug just have a calming influence for all hostile reactions. Could a dose of it calm down Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem from their spittle flying reaction to Rush's show?

[haroldeveryman]

“All 36 participants were white males.”

Why did the the lab workers even bother to inject the drug? The participants were racist by definition.

[outofstyle]

I have mild benign essential tremor and my doc says “IT’S BENIGN!!!!” and didn’t prescribe anything.

For what it's worth, I'm a doc, & propranolol usually works well for benign essential tremor. It cured my dad.

[Clock King]

"If you are feeling under-medicated, please contact an authority."

This sh** is getting real scary.

[Graybeard58]

I take Propranolol and still detest Obama. Am I still racist? Maybe I just detest his half white now? Or maybe because he’s a marxist P.O.S.

[Graybeard58]

It's a miracle drug for benign essential tremor.

I take it for what my doctor describes as a "familial tremor", it's somewhat effective when I take it as prescribed. It also has the side benefit of lowering my resting pulse rate from an average of 105 to 75.

[hecht]

Its funny when you consider how hypertension is so much more prevalent in the black community.