[extropy-chat] brain scans for racial attitudes

[Damien Broderick]

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From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:22 PM

> If racism is similarly a neurological disease

This is an extreme reading of the original rather dodgy research, which just
claimed that racists use more mental effort in disguising their real
attitudes when answering tests that would reveal their racism in a context
where such attitudes are disapproved, and that this brain activity can be
instrument-detected. Heritability or specialized `racism' brain structures
have nothing to do with it, as I understood the article.

Damien Broderick