Respond to the following: Do you observe any similarities between the 11 patients and their conditions?

Can you establish a possible timeline about when the unexpected symptoms, those not related to the patients’ original reason for visiting the hospital, developed?

Propose several hypotheses about why only 11 patients in the hospital are presenting with unexpected symptoms.

1. glaciers are melting

2. more water going into ocean (water's such as fresh waters, etc)

i believe the answer is a or 1

emerging idea only occurs as a raw idea that could appear out of nowhere. meanwhile, to reach scientific consensus , that idea must be structured and tested over and over again through various experiments. the scientific consensus transforms the raw idea into idea that is more reliable through the process of scientific elimination.