Scientific Brainstorming
Purpose and boundaries
Use this skill to create, organize, challenge, and transparently prioritize
candidate research directions. Treat every output as a proposal, not a
finding. Creativity methods can alter participation and idea yield, but no
method universally improves originality, usefulness, or scientific validity.
The evidence base and its limits are summarized in
references/sources.md.
Keep these activities separate:
- Ideation creates questions, mechanisms, alternatives, or study concepts.
- Evidence assessment checks what reliable literature and data support.
- Hypothesis validation requires observations, predictions, suitable designs, analyses, and independent scrutiny; brainstorming cannot validate a hypothesis.
- Ethics, biosafety, dual-use, regulatory, and institutional review require the relevant authorized reviewers. A brainstorm is never approval.
- Clinical advice requires qualified clinicians and patient-specific context. Do not turn research ideas into diagnosis or treatment guidance.
For an observation-led testable hypothesis, hand off to
hypothesis-generation. For study architecture, use `ex…
