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 . Keep these activities separate: - Ideation creates questions, mechanisms, alternatives, or study concepts. - Evidence assessment checks what reliable literature and data support. - Hypothesis valida…