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01/23/2009: "Researchers Try to Cure Racism"

The results are still preliminary, have yet to be replicated, and the real-world effects of reducing bias in a controlled laboratory setting are not clear. But for all those caveats, the findings add to a growing body of research suggesting that science can battle racism.

"Any time you can get people to treat people as individuals, you reduce the effect of stereotypes," said Brown University cognitive scientist Michael Tarr. "It won't solve racism, but it could have profound real-world effects."

Tarr's findings overlap with other results suggesting that the key to reducing racial bias - at least in a short-term, laboratory setting - is exposure to people in personalized ways that challenge stereotypes. This is hardly a new notion: it's the essence of the contact hypothesis, formulated in the mid-20th century and the basis of integrated schooling.

[ Would it work on Rev Jesse Jackson to make him less inclined to avoid groups of young black men on the streets at night? ]

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/racetraining.html

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on Sunday, January 25th, Osama bin Laden said

My dislike of black and hispanic people is a result of integration with them in schools.

The so-called "cure" was the catalyst for my racial views!

Its amazing the level of pseudo-science that comes out of academia these days.

A cognitive scientist of all people should be fundamentally aware of racial differences in cognition.

on Friday, January 23rd, Victor said

If they can "cure" negroids and mongoloids from looking like simians then I suppose racism can be cured.

The jewish power structure may introduce the practices of gene therapy or genetic engineering to eliminate 'racist genes' in the near future; as they continue to investigate the white genome and discover specific racist alleles.

on Friday, January 23rd, Easson said

It's nothing new.

These groups are in the same league as those who felt it necessary to create the Nuclear weapon.

Human evolution takes thousands of years. No matter how hard you try, in the end you cannot beat nature at her own game.

If they want to explore these theories why not start with attempting to have the Red Squirrel and the Grey Squirrel living perfect harmony, sharing domeciles, exchanging nuts for good deeds etc.

Thus, i do not beleive these groups are acting in the best interests.