Psychology Today | 23.04.2026 04:03
I was sitting in my eye doctor’s waiting room when my smartphone rang. The call was from a British scientist I’d known for a while. He’d recently asked to read a manuscript for a book I’d written that was coming out later that year. If he could read it in advance, he’d told me, he could offer feedback. Usually, I wouldn’t show anyone my unpublished work, but his offer seemed genuine and well meant, and I’d sent it to him a week or so earlier. What science writer doesn’t want feedback from a scientist? It could only make my work better.
