Tournament: greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: immaculate heart ss | Judge: andrew halverson
American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=medicine~~#:~~:text=1.,exercise2C20and20other20nonsurgical20means.
"A substance, especially a drug, used to treat the signs and symptoms of a disease, condition, or injury."
Violation- CRISPR are stretches of DNA- not a substance and not for treatment
https://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html
In popular usage, "CRISPR" (pronounced "crisper") is shorthand for
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like a pair of molecular scissors, capable of cutting strands of DNA.
Vote neg for limits — there are tons of different medicines, which means their interp justifies reducing any IP protection in any medicine, creating hundreds of potential AFFs to prep out. This kills negative ground because different countries can have different economic situations that affect the Innovation debate and we lose all disads to global action. Two impacts:
2 — Research — the neg loses any incentive to do targeted research when the prep burden is so high so debaters would resort to stale generics and lose topic specific education. That outweighs because we only have 2 months to debate the topic and COVID is uniquely important to many debaters' lives.
Drop the debater to deter future abuse and DTA is illogical on T
Competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention.