Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Wimmer, Jan
T-Medicines
1 Interpretation – Medicines solely refer to physical substances.
American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.yourdictionary.com/medicine Elmer
"A substance, especially a drug, used to treat the signs and symptoms of a disease, condition, or injury."
2 Violation – Genomic Medicine is not – it’s an “interdisciplinary medical specialty”.
Roth 19 Stephanie Roth J Med Libr Assoc. 2019 Jul; 107(3): 442–448. Published online 2019 Jul 1. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2019.604 (Biomedical and Research Services Librarian, Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, Temple University, Philadelphia)Elmer
Genomic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical specialty involving the use of genomic information that has rapidly grown since the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) more than a decade ago. Definitions of basic concepts of genomic medicine are provided in Table 1.
Their solvency advocate agrees, vidyasagar defines CRISPR as “specialized stretches of DNA”, not a specific medicine
Medical Specialty refers to the field, not a particular substance.
American Heritage Medical Dictionary 7 The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007 Elmer
A branch of medicine or surgery in which a physician specializes; the field or practice of a specialist.
3 The Standard is Limits – They explode the topic to include therapies, research areas, treatments, drug discovery techniques, etc. that eviscerate a stable locus of predictability. Limits is a sequencing question to Clash and in-depth Education since we’re only able to prepare if there’s stable core controversies.
4 TVA Solves – reduce IP protections on gene-based medicines.
5 Paradigm Issues –
a Topicality is Drop the Debater – it’s a fundamental baseline for debate-ability.
b Use Competing Interps – 1 Topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical and 2 Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation.
c No RVI’s - 1 Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2 Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3 Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive.