In a speech, physicist Richard Feynman said scientists should be angry about junk science and astrology. In the absence of anger, he says, we are not going to do what anger gets you to do. John Sutter: I think most people who study anger would say it's typically experienced when the harm that’s being done is being done to youWho is feeling angry? "I'm somebody who only figured out in the last year or so that negative emotions really should be considered first and foremost as emotions that must have some informational value"
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