[Cliff Bannakar] certainly does. He has been developing R-7 just for that reason and has a gut feeling that he may be on to something. The most intuitive of all the characters, Cliff is a brilliant young scientist with a tendency to make snap decisions a la Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Although Cliff knows better than to rely on his intuition, he has a tendency to do so.

Cliff's colleague and erstwhile lover, Robin Decker, believes Cliff may have cut corners. After failing to produce results for several years, Cliff was on the verge of losing his job. But as Robin sees it, Cliff would not commit fraud, though he may have ignored data that didn't jell with his hunches. When Robin cannot duplicate Cliff's findings - none of her mice becomes cancer free - she has serious misgivings. Was his record-keeping sloppy? Did he suppress data? Did he lie?

Perhaps, as Cliff suggests, Robin has "screwed up" the results. Maybe Cliff screwed up. Robin believes the latter, but her belief is based on intuition. When it turns out that Cliff, too, has been acting on intuition, the tension ratchets up with a National Institutes of Health audit, congressional hearings and a compelling outcome, head-spinning for all concerned.