The woman with the ear of the Prime Minister in the pandemic
The woman with the ear of the Prime Minister in the pandemic 10 minutes to read Greg Bruce meets Dame Juliet Gerrard, the Prime Minister's chief science advisor. I asked Dame Juliet Gerrard if she ever relies on gut feeling. I said it seemed like gut feeling would have been required a lot in the early days of the pandemic, when we didn't know anything about the virus. She said: "I think scientists call gut feeling 'a hypothesis'." That sounded quite witty for a scientist, so I asked if she'd used that line before. She said she hadn't. She said: "It was a glib answer, but I t...