[fluxquanta]

When I was a research assistant in college I was encouraged for one of my presentations to emphasize safe hydrogen storage as a vehicle fuel source, when really the research was all about how minuscule amounts of hydrogen change the electrical/optical properties of thin metallic films (and desorption was on the order of days). Selling it as a building block for safer hydrogen storage was necessary to get people engaged.

[refurb]

Yup! I published a paper on organoselenium chemistry and was asked to add commentary about potential "anti-cancer" properties.

Sure my work could be extended in that direction, but I had done zero work to pursue it.