Dr. Helen Czerski

I think the question really isn't about trusting science.

It's trusting the people who do science.

I think what's interesting about that is that even the people who say they don't trust some science, they still want science on their side, right?

They don't say, here's my alternative system.

They say, here's this other piece of science.

I'm Dr. Helen Cheresky, and I'm a physicist at University College London.

So it's interesting because the authority of science actually isn't questioned.

There's no one who's, well, as far as I know, there are not very many people who are saying, actually, the world is run by a load of wizards who just wave magic wands and things happen, right?

There is a sort of collective agreement that there is a form of reality that we can understand systematically.

I think the question really isn't about trust in science, it's trust in the people who do science.