![]() ![]() government spent on diseases that were far less threatening. Yet the budget for AIDS research was a fraction of what the U.S. More than 6,000 Americans had already died. This was four years after AIDS first made headlines. ![]() "I was so mad with hearing this news - so angry at the doctor - I thought the one best way to protest would be to light up a cigarette and just smoke it with as much pleasure as I could find," he says.īut in the months that followed Petrelis soon shifted the focus of his rage, as he began to learn just how little the government and medical establishment had done to address a crisis that, at the time, mostly afflicted gay men. He did it precisely because he knew it was forbidden. Read and listen to stories in the series here. Join NPR in our exploration of anger and what we can learn from this powerful emotion. Anger can be a destructive emotion but it can also be a positive force. It's in our politics, our schools and homes. This story is part of a series from NPR's Science desk called " The Other Side of Anger." There's no question we are in angry times.
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