Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity - Paperbackby Sander L. Gilman (Author), James Thomas (Author) The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that based on their clinical experiment the beta blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental