1ac - covid 1nc - wto cp midterms da case 1ar - condo bad process bad all 2nr - wto cp 2ar - midterms L
greenhill
3
Opponent: strake ks | Judge: william freedman
1ac - kant trix util 1nc - tt bad kant 1ar - all 2nr - kant 2ar - kant
greenhill
2
Opponent: harker pg | Judge: tom evnen
1ac - trade secrets 1nc - must disclose contact info trade secret pic kant nc case 1ar - condo bad all 2nr - condo bad kant 2ar - util
loyola
5
Opponent: lynbrook md | Judge: andrew torrez
1ac - util 1nc - kant case 1ar - all 2nr - util kant 2ar - kant
loyola
4
Opponent: strake ks | Judge: connor self
1ac - kant afc trix util adv 1nc - wto cp util case 1ar - alt actor fiat bad condo bad agent cp bad "stupid" k case 2nr - multiple shells bad all 2ar - alt actor fiat bad
loyola
2
Opponent: mcneil sc | Judge: phoenix pittman
1ac - setcol 1nc - agent cp util nc innovation da case 1ar - all 2nr - agent cp 2ar - all
nano nagle
4
Opponent: harker as | Judge: ben cortez
1ac - covid 1nc - wto agent cp kant nc case 1ar - condo bad competition all 2nr - wto agent cp shells 2ar - perm
nano nagle
2
Opponent: proof dr | Judge: lukas krause
1ac - evergreening 1nc - tjfs bad kant nc innovation econ da 1ar - all 2nr - permissibility econ case 2ar - same
nano nagle
6
Opponent: southlake carroll ep | Judge: emmiee malyugina
1ac - weed 1nc - wto agent cp kant nc case 1ar - condo bad process bad all 2nr - shells kant case 2ar - util kant
nano nagle
Octas
Opponent: sage mp | Judge: vishan chaudhary, patrick fox, quentin clark
1ac - jordan 1nc - kant case 1ar - all 2nr - kant 2ar - util
please
1
Opponent: no | Judge: bully
how's life
valley
1
Opponent: northern valley dn | Judge: isabella nadel
1ac - covid 1nc - must spec util kant case 1ar - must spec ci all 2nr - must spec ci kant 2ar - util kant
valley
5
Opponent: westlake mr | Judge: wyatt hatfield
1ac - evergreening afc trix 1nc - a prioris bad afc kant case 1ar - afc kant 2nr - afc kant 2ar - afc
valley
4
Opponent: mission san jose ss | Judge: lukas krause
1ac - covid 1nc - ep mod and extinction bad kant nc 1ar - all 2nr - kant 2ar - kant extinction
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0 - contact info
Tournament: please | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge: bully hi! i'm sophia (she/her), feel free to contact me if u have any questions!
Tournament: please | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge: bully i’m on debatedrills - the following url has our roster, conflict, policy, code of conduct, relevant team policies, and harassment/bullying complaint form: https://www.debatedrills.com/debate-club?ld
10/16/21
0 - navigation
Tournament: please | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge: bully 0 - contact, navigation, basic info 1 - theory interps/any generic position so - sept/oct nd - nov/dec jf - jan/feb
nc - phil/trix k - kritik th - theory t - topicality da - disad
10/16/21
0 - tournament names
Tournament: please | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge: bully pls no must spec tournament names
loyola - Loyola Invitational greenhill - Greenhill Fall Classic valley - Mid America Cup nano nagle - Nano Nagle Classic and Nano Nagle RR bronx - NEW YORK CITY INVITATIONAL DEBATE AND SPEECH TOURNAMENT
10/16/21
0 - wiki errors, disclosure info
Tournament: please | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge: bully here's a list of all the things i'll always disclose on my wiki - if u don't see them, that probably means that the wiki is broken/i forgot so pls contact me before u run disclosure!
as of 9/25 it seems that os and cites randomly stop working, if a doc shows up as blank on os it's cuz the wiki isn't taking it, pls email me if you want the doc!
os nc off positions and cards, rr, cites are first three last three for off positions
10/16/21
1 - broken interps
Tournament: greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: harker pg | Judge: tom evnen (greenhill r2) interp: debaters must disclose at least one (1) form of contact info on their page of the 2021-2022 NDCA LD Wiki. This can be any way I can reach them before the round (Facebook, Phone number, Email, Discord, etc). standards extempt
(valley r4) interp: debaters must not run epistemic modesty and an extinction-level impact
(valley r5) interp: neither debater may read arguments that result in a win for them independent of whether they are winning arguments back to a specific framework. This does not include arguments that link to fairness or education. To clarify, no a prioris. strat skew - clash -
(bronx r3) interp: debaters must disclose all offensive positions on the 2021-2022 ndca hs ld wiki accessibility - preround prep - clash -
pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable. People consistently regard pleasure and pain as good reasons for action, despite the fact that pleasure doesn’t seem to be instrumentally valuable for anything.
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~ SJDI Let us start by observing, empirically, that a widely shared judgment about intrinsic
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places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value.
Moral uncertainty means preventing extinction should be our highest priority. Bostrom 12 ~Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority." Global Policy (2012)~
These reflections on moral uncertainty
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, we must prevent any existential catastrophe.
10/9/21
1 - th - must spec util
Tournament: valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: northern valley dn | Judge: isabella nadel
Interpretation: If the affirmative defends a consequentialist framework, they must explicitly delineate which theory of the good they defend in the form of a text in the 1ac.
Each nuance of the ethic entails different obligations and would exclude different offense – there are 7 different versions.
from being done), or may only require passive avoidance of bad outcomes.
B. Violation: They don’t and maximizing expected well-being doesn’t cut it.
Crisp, Roger, "Well-Being", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/well-being/.Massa Well-being is most commonly used in philosophy to describe what is non-
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how a person’s moral character and actions relate to their well-being.
Counterplan Text: The member states of the European Union should reduce trade secret protections for medicines by requiring that plaintiffs prove that the acquisition, use, and disclosure of the trade secret did not pertain to revealing misconduct, wrongdoing, or illegal activity, but not protecting the general public interest.
Their author agrees general public interest is legally undefined and worsens whistleblower protection
Abazi 16 — (Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor @ Maastricht University, "Trade Secrets and Whistleblower Protection in the European Union", European Papers, Vol. 1, 2016, No 3, European Forum, Insight of 3 September 2016, pp. 1061-1072, Available Online at https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/europeanforum/trade-secrets-and-whistleblower-protection-in-the-eu, accessed 9-17-21, Bergen AK) Art. 5, let. b), refers to "general public interest",
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considered as exposing trade secrets and doing so in the general public interest.
10/16/21
so - cp - wto
Tournament: loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: mcneil sc | Judge: phoenix pittman the cites isn't working for this position for some reason - check the os
Rising RandD costs mean that pharma is on the brink of losing monetary incentive to innovate
Gassmann et al 16— Schuhmacher, Alexander, Oliver Gassmann ~Professor of Technology management at University of St. Gallen~, and Markus Hinder. "Changing RandD models in research-based pharmaceutical companies." Journal of translational medicine 14.1 (2016): 1-11. (AG DebateDrills) The costs for pharmaceutical RandD increased in the past decades significantly. Munos
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2002–2011, invested more than USD 5 billion per new drug.
Secondary patents are necessary to incentivize research of both initial active ingredients and follow on innovations, this controls the internal link to all of their innovation impacts—also competitor litigation controls the negative effects well
Foor 21— Meredith Foor; JD candidate at University of New Hampshire; "INCENTIVIZING INNOVATION AND RECLAIMING BALANCE IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY: A CASE FOR SECONDARY PATENTS"; HeinOnline; May 2021; https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2021/05/foor'final.pdf. (AG DebateDrills) Patents remain a primary focus for the pharmaceutical industry as a means to protect new
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a profit, and recycle their profits into new groundbreaking research and innovation.
The follow-on patents also are the only way that we discover miraculous cross-applications of drugs, which is the fastest way to solve emerging disease, which is especially important during a pandemic so it turns and outweighs case on probability
Holman 18—Christopher Holman; Professor of Law at University of Missouri-Kansas City; Why Follow-On Pharmaceutical Innovations Should Be Eligible For Patent Protection; Intellectual Property Watch; 9/21/2018; https://www.ip-watch.org/2018/09/21/follow-pharmaceutical-innovations-eligible-patent-protection/. (AG DebateDrills) The attack on secondary pharmaceutical patents is based in part on the flawed premise that
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to the development of drugs as a patent on the active ingredient itself.
Externally, pharma collapses without strong IP protections
Buckland 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 Pharmaceutical companies are staffed by ranks of attorneys, and the intellectual property (IP
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and innovation. Quite frankly, it would all collapse without good IP."
Biopharmaceutical research is the bedrock of our economy – even minor reductions in income result in mass unemployment and butterfly effects
Sullivan 11 – Thomas Sullivan (Thomas Sullivan is Editor of Policy and Medicine, President of Rockpointe Corporation, founded in 1995 to provide continuing medical education to healthcare professionals around the world. Prior to founding Rockpointe, Thomas worked as a political consultant), July 12, 2011, Study Shows Importance of Biopharmaceutical Jobs For US Economy," Policy and Medicine, http://www.policymed.com/2011/07/study-shows-importance-of-biopharmaceutical-jobs-for-us-economy-for-every-20-billion-loss-in-revenue.html WJ Biopharmaceutical research companies produce the highest-value jobs, the types of jobs Americans
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the biopharmaceutical sector is a key foundation of the life sciences innovation ecosystem.
Bipoharma collapse causes economic meltdown – it’s far worse than previous recessions
Howrigon 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 In recent history, the U.S. economy has experienced the near catastrophic
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resulting fallout could be could be much worse than even the housing crisis.
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Tønnesson 15 Stein 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 Several recent works on China and Sino–US relations have made substantial contributions to
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each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene.
Current WTO legislation on IP rights promotes innovation
Ezell et al 4/29 Jaci McDole, Stephen Ezell ~Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He focuses on science and technology policy, international competitiveness, trade, manufacturing, and services issues.~ 4/29/21, "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic" Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through DD AG Although anti-IP proponents have attacked biopharmaceutical manufacturers particularly hard, the reality is
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top two filing growths of 73 percent and 26 percent, respectively.30
Reductions in protections kill medical innovation, economic growth, and knowledge building for the future
McDole and Ezell 04/29 – Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at ITIF. She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. Her work includes ITIF’s Innovate4Health Initiatives (2017–2019) and A Covid-19 TRIPS Waiver Makes No More Sense for Copyrights Than It Does for Patents (2021). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she cofounded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen J. Ezell is ITIF vice president for Global Innovation Policy. He focuses on science, technology, and innovation policy as well as international competitiveness and trade policy issues. He is the coauthor of Innovating in a Service Driven Economy: Insights Application, and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) and Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale 2012). The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized by its peers in the think tank community as the global center of excellence for science and technology policy, ITIF’s mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress; April 29, 2021; "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic"; https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-throughadvay Innovation can—and does—happen anywhere and at any time. As society
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generations of biomedical innovation and thus perpetuate the enterprises into the future.13
Future pandemics are more likely and more deadly which makes innovation key to stop extinction
Ceballos 5/27 Gerardo Ceballos ~PhD, Dr Gerardo Ceballos is an ecologist and conservationist at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is particularly recognized for his influential work on global patterns of distribution of diversity, endemism, and extinction risk in vertebrates. He is also well-known for his contribution to understanding the magnitude and impacts of the sixth mass extinction.~, 5/27/21, "THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY", Population Matters, https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/05/sixth-mass-extinction-and-future-humanity DD AG Somewhere, sometime in late 2019, a coronavirus from a wild species, perhaps
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and civilization. What it is at stake is the future of mankind.
Dems win the Senate now, but it’s close—-it determines the Biden presidency.
Shane Goldmacher 7/17. Reporter, New York Times, "Democrats See Edge in Early Senate Map as Trump Casts Big Shadow," The New York Times, July 17, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/politics/midterm-elections.html, RJP, DebateDrills. Six months into the Biden administration, Senate Democrats are expressing a cautious optimism that
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through President Biden’s expansive agenda on the economy, the pandemic and infrastructure.
The plan is unpopular—-it’s seen as soft on China.
Cynthia Hicks 21. Director of Public Affairs at PhRMA focusing on polling and opinion research that supports advocacy communications and strategy. "New polling shows Americans are sounding the alarm on the TRIPS IP waiver," PhRMA, May 14, 2021, https://catalyst.phrma.org/new-polling-shows-americans-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-the-trips-ip-waiver, RJP, DebateDrills *NOTE – the stuff after "include the following" is a picture that
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– expressed by more than six in ten voters – include the following:
China is the key for the midterms—-Senate control hinges on it.
by (President) Xi (Jinping) and the Chinese Communist Party.
GOP control of the Senate will be used to usher in a new wave of Trumpism, crushing democracy.
Morton Kondracke 21. Retired executive editor of Roll Call, a former "McLaughlin Group" and Fox News commentator and co-author, with Fred Barnes, of Jack Kemp: The Bleeding Heart Conservative Who Changed America. "Why Democrats Must Retain Control of Congress in 2022," RealClearPolitics, August 4, 2021, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/08/04/why'democrats'must'retain'control'of'congress'in'2022'146189.html, RJP, DebateDrills The 2020 election demonstrated how fragile our democracy is. As Donald Trump tried,
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for election results and the rule of law would again be in peril.
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Kasparov 17 Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, former World Chess Champion, "Democracy and Human Rights: The Case for U.S. Leadership," Testimony Before The Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 16th, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021617'Kasparov'20Testimony.pdf As one of the countless millions of people who were freed or protected from totalitarianism
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having the exceptional courage to always try to be better. Thank you.
9/24/21
so - nc - contracts
Tournament: bronx | Round: Octas | Opponent: bergen county ak | Judge: nikita tanguturi, grant brown, anand rao
~1~ IP rights are included in multiple international contracts – the aff violates that.
WIPO (WIPO, 11-9-1998, accessed on 8-25-2021, World Intellectual Property Organization, "Intellectual Property and Human Rights", https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo'pub'762.pdf) The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Office of the United Nations
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of Action, 1993 (VDPA), and other international and regional instruments.
~2~ Consent – the aff disregards the consent of medicine producers and allows it to be violated by removing patents - negates because violating a party’s consent is an act of violating a hypothetical contract since their side of the contract isn’t accounted for
10/17/21
so - nc - kant
Tournament: loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: lynbrook md | Judge: andrew torrez cites aren't working for this position either - check os
10/9/21
so - t - medicines
Tournament: bronx | Round: Octas | Opponent: bergen county ak | Judge: nikita tanguturi, grant brown, anand rao
Interpretation – the affirmative may not specify a subset of medicines
1~ Grammar – Medicines is a generic bare plural
Nebel 20 ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" Victory Briefs, 19 August 2020. no url AG I agree that if "a democracy" in the resolution just meant "one
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This suggests that "a democracy" in the resolution is not existential.
It applies to this topic – a~ the noun "medicines" in the topic has no determiner preceding it to justify speccing a subset of medicines. that means medicines is an existential bare plural b~ it fails the upward entailment test bc "member nations ought to reduce ip protections for medicines" does not entail that "member nations ought to reduce ip protections for pharmaceuticals" even though all medicines are pharmaceuticals.
Semantics first – the judge doenst have any jursidiction to vote on any other topic and it’s the only stable statis point of the round
Violation – they only defend the COVID vaccine
Standards:
1~ Prep hazard – there are an infinite number of medicines they could possibly spec exploding neg prep – generics and functional limits don’t apply because each medicine has different effects, capabilities, and implications which makes there infinite arguments for each weapon being bad
2~ TVA Solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff. We aren’t stopping them from reading new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don’t solve – it’s ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff making it impossible for me to win
10/17/21
so - t - vaccines
Tournament: bronx | Round: Octas | Opponent: bergen county ak | Judge: nikita tanguturi, grant brown, anand rao
Interpretation: medicine means only treatment and cure – affs cannot defend medical interventions, which is distinct
Elbe 10 ~Stefan Elbe, director of the Centre for Global Health Policy and a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. "Security and Global Health," ISBN 0745643744, accessed 8-10-2021, https://www.wiley.com/en-ee/Security+and+Global+Health-p-9780745643731~~ HWIC Yet here too we must be careful not to overlook other types of medical intervention
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security to be practised through the introduction of new medical interventions in society.
Standards:
1. Limits – allowing any patented medical intervention allows testing methods, scanning machinery, and tracing software – it takes away generics like innovation which are specific to pharmaceutical development, not preventative measures, which takes away our main IP good argument
Reis ‘6 (Tarcísio Hardman Reis, PhD in International Law from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland) The Role of Intellectual Property in the Global Challenge for Immunization, 22 June 2006, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1422-2213.2006.00284.x IP and vaccines: a troubled relationship The Doha Declaration12 is considered to be