of myself and my work on the species question in today’s Observer.
A naturally retiring man, I always shied from publicity. But in a week where the public prints felt that the behaviour of a supermodel on an aeroplane was the most important story of the day, I am delighted that some acreage was dedicated to a scientific personality albeit of a vintage one.
(As they would have said in 1858, she was “behaving like a girl from a matchbox factory”.)
I hope that my impending anniversaries may give Mr McKie and his colleagues a little more opportunity to fix their sub- and feature editors with a steely eye and compel them feature science stories more prominently. Not only that, editors should invite scientists many of whom, as a little time reading here and elsewhere shows are lucid and entertaining writers, to contribute to their publications in their own right.
Yours is a much more interesting story, this is certainly true.
There have been accounts in the prints in the past couple of days about genetic predictions and cures for diseases, I have been looking out for any “micro science” but have not found any. I am sure there must be some of it happening, though.