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Originally posted by Four Fingers
Making infantile studies with zero scientific value using precious tax money makes you even worse.
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I hardly thing this study is either infantile or without scientific merit. I think as our society gets more diverse, it's going to become ever more important to identify the roots of racism. If we can "unpack" how it works both cognitively and neurobiologically, we can produce better interventions than the stupid "diversity training" that is the useless treatment du jour. And Nature Neuroscience is a very highly-regarded, peer-reviewed journal. They don't let just anybody publish there, and they have very high standards for the research they do publish. Perhaps the study was performed with tax dollars - could have been privately funded through Foundations, could have been NIH/NSF funding, or a combination thereof. Even so, I don't mind my tax dollars going to fund research on racism - I mind it less than my tax dollars going to pay for a lot of other idiotic things our government does.
Edit: Oops! Analog beat me to the exact same point.