Wild ideas

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."

– John Maynard Keynes

Hypotheses are like little puzzles for the brain. You can play with a hypothesis - figure out what doesn't fit & tweak it - or if it's too full of holes, just throw it away. Finding holes is fun as long as you don't take the idea (or yourself) too seriously.

Wild Idea#1

Hypothesis (and premise) for etiology of vaper’s lung (EVALI)

Sometimes I become obsessed with a problem that has nothing to do with my own research & end up with a strongly evidenced (you be the judge, not trying to brag here!) & testable hypothesis that is essentially orphaned. I actually think this one is critical to test from a broader public health perspective; I wish I had the bandwidth.