Unless you're a lizard brained republican who doesn't acknowledge that racism or
bigotry of any kind actually exists.
You probably understand that there are a lot of people who have bigoted prejudiced
views of other races and that can manifest in a lot of ways in terms of how they act,
how they talk and all of that.
But there are some ways it affects people that even they may
not know we saw the results of this study being talked about by vice and
we just have to jump into it.
It has to do with the effectiveness of placebos based on the race
of the doctor who gives them to you so they took 187 white patients
experiencing a laboratory induced allergic reaction.
So they got an allergic reaction while they were in the lab and
they had to interact with the health care provider
who would give them a cream to treat it and then see how much it helped.
And they were told this will cure the allergic reaction you're having, but
would it actually, so the cream was not actually a treatment.
It was an unscented lotion and their interactions were completely standardized
except for the providers, race and gender.
And so here is what they found patients were randomly assigned to interact
with either a provider was a man or a woman and either Asian, black or white.
A fully blinded research assistant measured the change in the size of
the patient's allergic reaction after cream administration, which means that
even the research assistant did not know what the purpose of this study was and
had no reason to bias the results of how much the cream actually helped.
The allergic reaction and here is where it gets kind of weird and bigoted white
patients had a larger placebo response to the inert cream when their providers
were white or Asian males compared to either black or female providers.
The white patients of black providers also had larger initial allergic reactions
compared to those who had white and asian providers.
And if it's not clear what that means, we have to pause here for
a second because it is one thing for their allergy to clear up more based on
whether a whiter asian male gave them the cream versus a black doctor or
a female doctor of any race that's already weird enough.
But they had more of an allergic reaction when a black doctor did
the thing to them like you, can talk about like conscious racism and
bigotry and then sort of like subconscious or unconscious bigotry.
But the like to the level of an allergic reaction Jr that is
fascinating what do you think about that?
>> This is crazy, the first thing I thought of course because,
I think what we can accept that many many people don't is people have their biases
because of how it's based in society.
How you were raised, what you around what you experienced whatever kind of trauma
maybe you went through and it connects to your brain to feel like, hey,
that same type of scenario will come back and get me or the negative.
It's just survival in a way in some of these cases look something like with
the medical procedure,
maybe you have an allergic reaction in your body is responding.
He's trying to shake this and then it then mixes with whatever biases you have based
off of societal pressures and influences, right?
So if you've always been told that, this certain person or
this certain gender isn't smart enough or
isn't good enough at anything that they do, you're not gonna trust it.
Just, it just deep down without even knowing that you're having these types of
thoughts and then there comes your rash getting getting bigger and
it might tell you a lot about how you came up and
this is where I think it stretches over to people that say and do horrific things.
Maybe they're homophobic, maybe they're racist, maybe they're misogynist and
then when they come out and apologize for it and
the thing that's always missing from these apologies and
self reflection is I think this way and I didn't know it, I need to address that.
So I can undo that and maybe be a better human being that's the rarity of these
types of things because you have to change something because the reason why you're
such an a hole is because something was in you that made you think a certain way.
I bet it's somewhere in me somewhere, I'm not sure who have biases against, but
I would love to find out what it comes out and
then you get a chance to maybe reassess that.
But Pride we talked about it earlier on my show pride is a very powerful thing and
many people don't want to address that, but I mean we have to accept
that we have biases and then it even could hurt you medically.
>> Yeah, probably your downfall, yeah, this is, there's a lot
of other interesting findings in here, it was, it's if you go to vice,
you can find the full article with a link to the full results and everything.
We don't have time to analyze all of it, but it is fascinating,
I really wish that in addition to just testing white people's patients,
I wish they had tested people of other races as well.
Because I would love to see, I mean we know about the concept of internalized
racism that like culture can get you to feel bigotry towards your own race.
God, I would love to see if that has an effect or two but anyway, more and
more women and people of color becoming health care providers.
So, like being woke might save your health I guess doesn't mean not a race by the way
this is evidence that just because you're not
shouting the N word doesn't mean that you don't have thoughts or
feelings, even if not conscious so let's all bear that in mind.
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