Cogito Debate Lee Neg
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| CSUF Invitational | 1 | Nova 42 JF | DePrano, Sharon |
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| CSUF Invitational | 2 | Granada Hills Charter AZ | De La Rosa, Ashlie |
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| Jack Howe | 1 | Marlborough AK | Leah Villanueva |
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| Jack Howe | 3 | Peninsula AB | Gonzalez, Gabriela |
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| Peninsula | 3 | Mission San Jose AA | Lin, Zoella |
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| CSUF Invitational | 1 | Opponent: Nova 42 JF | Judge: DePrano, Sharon 1ac - Competition ADV - Accessibility ADV - Drug Prices ADV - Structural Violence Framing 1nc - Econ DA - Innovation DA - Util Framing 1ar - all 2nr - Innovation DA - Case turns 2ar - all |
| CSUF Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Granada Hills Charter AZ | Judge: De La Rosa, Ashlie 1ac - Evergreening ADV - Evergreening Plan 1nc - Innovation DA 1ar - all 2nr - all 2ar - all |
| Contact Information | Finals | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Contact Information |
| Jack Howe | 3 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Gonzalez, Gabriela 1ac - Vaccines - TRIPs Waiver Plan |
| Peninsula | 3 | Opponent: Mission San Jose AA | Judge: Lin, Zoella 1AC - Lease Plan - Mining ADV - COPUOS ADV - Disclosure theory |
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0 - Contact InformationTournament: Contact Information | Round: Finals | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA | 9/18/21 |
JF - EU CPTournament: Peninsula | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mission San Jose AA | Judge: Lin, Zoella The European Union and its member states should propose an agreement between space faring nations to prohibit space privatization over asteroids and fund and regulate international asteroid mining through the European Space Agency.EU mediation key to set space norms—strategic distrust means only the CP gets everyone on boardJosé-Miguel Bello y Villarino, 6-7-2019, a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave) and a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. He has previously served as a policy and legal officer of the European Commission on space research and policy issues, "Preventing a Cold War in Space Using European Research and Innovation Programs" http://sciencediplomacy.org/article/2019/preventing-cold-war-in-space-using-european-research-and-innovation-programs CP is a blockbuster win for EU leadership – which is key to diplomatic initiatives on climate changeAliberti '19 That solves warming – improved EU leadership key to maintain Paris and forge future agreementsParker '18 | 1/22/22 |
JF - OST DATournament: Peninsula | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mission San Jose AA | Judge: Lin, Zoella DA—-OST – Space LawNext/first off is the OST DA The Outer Space Treaty, or OST, is strong nowStuart 17 ~Jill Stuart, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, 1-27-2017, "The Outer Space Treaty has been remarkably successful – but is it fit for the modern age?," Conversation, https://theconversation.com/the-outer-space-treaty-has-been-remarkably-successful-but-is-it-fit-for-the-modern-age-71381~~/Kankee Normal means requires changes to space law be implemented through an OST amendment proposed to COPUOSHalstead 10 ~C. Brandon Halstead, B.S., Psychology, The University of Alabama; J.D., The University of Alabama School of Law; LL.M., Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University; Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps, 2010, "Prometheus Unbound - Proposal for a New Legal Paradigm for Air Law and Space Law: Orbit Law," Journal of Space Law, https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/jrlsl36andi=151~~/Kankee That causes a runaway convention that destroys the OSTVedda 18 ~Jim Vedda, senior policy analyst with a PhD in political science from the University of Florida and a M.A. in science, technology, and public policy at GWU, 2018, "The Outer Space Treaty: Assessing its Relevance at the 50-Year Mark" Center for Space Policy and Strategy, https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/OuterSpaceTreaty.pdf~~/Kankee A decline in space law destroys US trust and treaty credJim Vedda, senior policy analyst, PhD in Polisci @ U of Florida, M.A. in science, technology, and public policy @ George Washington University, '18, "The Outer Space Treaty: Assessing its Relevance at the 50-Year Mark" https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/OuterSpaceTreaty.pdf US treaty cred is the basis of the liberal international order - extinctionSuri 18 (Jeremi, 5/10/18, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the University's Department of History and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs." Trump's Terrifying Treaty of Versailles Precedent" https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/10/trumps-terrifying-treaty-of-versailles-precedent/) | 1/22/22 |
Sept-Oct Debt Ceiling DATournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough AK | Judge: Leah Villanueva Contention 2 – Debt Ceiling DA1:30 Debt ceiling will pass now - business interests are key to force GOP to cave – that prevents economic collapseBarron-Lopez and Cadelago September 9th ~Lauara Barron-Lopez and Christopher Cadelago are White House Correspondents for Politico. "Biden wants to force Republicans to vote on the debt ceiling, sensing they'll cave." September 9, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/biden-mcconnell-debt-limit-threats-510922~~ Even small changes make pharma companies fear patent reformAsgari et al. 21 ~Nikou Asgari, markets reporter for the Financial Times, Donato Paolo Mancini, FT's pharma reporter, and Hannah Kuchler, FT's global pharmaceutical correspondent, 05-06-2021, "Pharma industry fears Biden's patent move sets precedent," FT, https://amp.ft.com/content/f54bf71b-87be-4290-9c95-4d110eec7a90~~/Kankee Pharma wins no matter what – they will just water down reformsFlorko and Facher 19 ~Nicholas Florko, Stat News Washington correspondent, and Lev Facher, Stat News health and life sciences writer, 07-16-2019, "How pharma, under attack from all sides, keeps winning in Washington," Stat News, https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/16/pharma-still-winning/~~/Kankee US default causes an irreparable, global economic crisisEgan September 8th ~Matt Egan, financial reporter for Cnn Business with a degree from the College of New Jersey, 9-8-2021, "'Financial Armageddon.' What's at stake if the debt limit isn't raised," CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/business/debt-ceiling-default-explained/index.html~~/Kankee Decline causes nuclear warStein Tønnesson 15, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo; Leader of East Asia Peace program, Uppsala University, 2015, "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace," International Area Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 297-311 | 9/18/21 |
Sept-Oct Econ DATournament: CSUF Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nova 42 JF | Judge: DePrano, Sharon Economy's recovering now – Delta and inflation are challenges but surmountableSully August 19th - Evan Sully, 8/19/21, Reuters, U.S. leading indicator points to further economic recovery in July, https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-leading-indicator-points-further-economic-recovery-july-2021-08-19/ WJ Pharma collapses without strong IP protectionsBuckland 17 - Danny Buckland (award-winning journalist who writes about health, general features and news, shortlisted for the prestigious Mind Media Awards for his work covering mental health issues), April 26, 2017, "Patents are lifeblood of pharmas", https://www.raconteur.net/legal/intellectual-property/patents-are-lifeblood-of-pharmas/ WJ Pharma collapse causes economic meltdown – it's far worse than previous recessionsHowrigon 17 — Ron Howrigon "(President and Founder of Fulcrum Strategies. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Western Michigan University and a Master's in Economics from North Carolina State University, focusing in the area of Health Economics) http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2017/01/health-care-crash-u-s-economy.html, January 19 2017, WJ Nuclear warStein Tønnesson 15, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo; Leader of East Asia Peace program, Uppsala University, 2015, "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace," International Area Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 297-311 | 10/16/21 |
Sept-Oct FWTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough AK | Judge: Leah Villanueva Framing0:35 The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. ~util~. Prefer –1~ Only pain and pleasure are intrinsically valuable – all other frameworks collapse.Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ 2~ Util (the doctrine of minimizing pain and maximizing happiness) is key to debates about IP.Kar 19 ~Mohit; Writer at the Original Position; "Utilitarianism in the Context of Intellectual Property," The Original Position; 9/18/19; https://originalpositionnluj.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/utilitarianism-in-the-context-of-intellectual-property/~~ 3~ (EXTRA) Outweighs b/c consequences are the only values we can experience – that means moral theories have to account for consequentialist comparisonHarris 10. Sam Harris 2010. CEO Project Reason; PHD UCLA Neuroscience; BA Stanford Philosophy. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values." | 9/18/21 |
Sept-Oct FW v2Tournament: CSUF Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nova 42 JF | Judge: DePrano, Sharon The standard is maximizing expected well-being.1~ Actor Specificitya) Different actors have distinct responsibilities – governments are abstract entities lacking personal identity and can't know their impact on specific individualsb) Aggregation – governments evaluate policy tradeoffs and degrees of wrongness of actions2~ Fairness and Education – frameworks are topicality interpretations of the word "ought" so they must be theoretically justified –a) Its best for education – only util can compare and choose between two different types of impacts – anything else forces judge intervention which takes the debate out of the debaters handsb) Real World – policymakers use util to model impacts – outweighs since education is the reason schools fund debate3~ Extinction First – life is the prerequisite to valueBostrom 12 ~Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority. 2012. www.existential-risk.org/concept.html~ | 10/16/21 |
Sept-Oct Innovation DATournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough AK | Judge: Leah Villanueva Contention 1 - Innovation DA2:20 Costs for RandD are increasing, requiring increasing drug prices as well.WTO 20 ~World Trade Organization, 2020, "Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation", World Trade Organization, https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/who-wipo-wto_2020_e.pdf~~/Triumph Debate Patents protect 80 of revenue for pharma - removing them combined with increasing R+D costs guts their financial solvency and ability to make drugs.CRS 12 ~CRS, 10/28/2021, "Drug Patent Expirations: Potential Effects on Pharmaceutical Innovation", Congressional Research Service, https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20121128_R42399_8beca70723872957efe4a267a5ae0df4805469ad.pdf~~ /Triumph Debate Thus, higher drug prices are justified - removing them would collapse the pharma industry and complete destroy innovationMullainathan 17 ~Sendhil Mullainathan, University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth, 6-30-2017, "High Drug Prices Are Bad. Cutting Them Could Be Worse. (Published 2017)," No Publication, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/upshot/high-drug-prices-are-bad-cutting-them-could-be-worse.html~~/Kankee Protecting patents are necessary for a few reasons:1~ Strong IP protection spurs innovation by encouraging risk-taking and incentivizing knowledge sharing — prefer statistical analysis of multiple studiesEzell and Cory 19 ~Stephen Ezell, vice president and global innovation policy @ ITIF, BS Georgetown School of Foreign Service. Nigel Cory, associate director covering trade policy @ ITIF, MA public policy @ Georgetown. "The Way Forward for Intellectual Property Internationally," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 4-25-2019, accessed 8-25-2021, https://itif.org/publications/2019/04/25/way-forward-intellectual-property-internationally~~ HWIC 2~ Continuing Biopharmaceutical innovation is key to prevent future pandemics and bioterrorMarjanovic and Feijao 20 ~Sonja Marjanovic Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitative biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis," RAND Corporation, 05-2020, accessed 8-8-2021, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html~~ HWIC A~ That causes extinctionMillett and Snyder-Beattie '17. Millett, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford; and Snyder-Beattie, M.S., Director of Research, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. 08-01-2017. "Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity," Health Security, 15(4), PubMed | 9/18/21 |
Sept-Oct Innovation DA v2Tournament: CSUF Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nova 42 JF | Judge: DePrano, Sharon Patent driven innovation post-Covid-19 is flourishing and is key to prevent pandemicsMacdole and Ezell April 29th ~Jaci Mcdole and Stephen Ezell ~{Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. McDole holds a double BA in Music Business and Radio-Television with a minor in Marketing, an MS in Education, and a JD with a specialization in intellectual property (Southern Illinois University Carbondale). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she co-founded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He comes to ITIF from Peer Insight, an innovation research and consulting firm he cofounded in 2003 to study the practice of innovation in service industries. At Peer Insight, Ezell led the Global Service Innovation Consortium, published multiple research papers on service innovation, and researched national service innovation policies being implemented by governments worldwide. Prior to forming Peer Insight, Ezell worked in the New Service Development group at the NASDAQ Stock Market, where he spearheaded the creation of the NASDAQ Market Intelligence Desk and the NASDAQ Corporate Services Network, services for NASDAQ-listed corporations. Previously, Ezell cofounded two successful innovation ventures, the high-tech services firm Brivo Systems and Lynx Capital, a boutique investment bank. Ezell holds a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, with an honors certificate from Georgetown's Landegger International Business Diplomacy program.~}, 21 - ("Ten Ways Ip Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain The World Through The Pandemic," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 4-29-2021, https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through)//marlborough-wr/ Pharma innovation is key to prevent devastating pandemics, bioterror, and ABRMarjanovic and Feijao 20 ~Sonja Marjanovic Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitative biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis," RAND Corporation, 05-2020, accessed 8-8-2021, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html~~ Bioweapons cause extinctionMillett and Snyder-Beattie '17. Millett, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford; and Snyder-Beattie, M.S., Director of Research, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. 08-01-2017. "Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity," Health Security, 15(4), PubMed | 10/16/21 |
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