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| Alta | 6 | Marlborough LF | Josh WeinGarten |
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| Alta | 2 | Interlake DB | Albert Cardenas |
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| Dowling Catholic | 2 | Eagan AE | Baez, Alex |
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| Dowling Catholic | 4 | Rosemount RS | Sutton, Dylan |
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| Dowling Catholic | 5 | Millard North JS | Bishop, Garrett |
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| Loyola | 2 | St Croix Prep AD | Phoenix Pittman |
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| Loyola | 3 | Westwood BJ | Asher Towner |
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| Loyola | 5 | Millard North JS | Ben Cortez |
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| Meadows | 1 | Canyon Crest SZ | KD Bond |
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| Meadows | 3 | Immac EL | Sam Larson |
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| Meadows | 5 | Southlake Carroll PK | Jacob Smith |
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| Nano Nagle | 1 | Southlake Carroll EP | Felicity Park |
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| Nano Nagle | 3 | Samammish LW | David Salazar |
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| Scarsdale | 4 | Stuyvesant IL | Joshua StPeter |
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| Scarsdale | 6 | Bronx RA | Victor Chen |
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| Scarsedale | 2 | Princeton PE | Andrew Chin |
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| Yale | 2 | Unionville PW | Lila Lavender |
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| Yale | 3 | Randolph CC | Mittal, Ashish |
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| Yale | 5 | Hunter AH | Wood, Tyler |
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| Alta | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough LF | Judge: Josh WeinGarten 1AC-cap |
| Alta | 2 | Opponent: Interlake DB | Judge: Albert Cardenas 1AC-cap |
| Dowling Catholic | 2 | Opponent: Eagan AE | Judge: Baez, Alex 1AC-cap |
| Dowling Catholic | 4 | Opponent: Rosemount RS | Judge: Sutton, Dylan 1AC-cap |
| Dowling Catholic | 5 | Opponent: Millard North JS | Judge: Bishop, Garrett 1AC-cap |
| Loyola | 2 | Opponent: St Croix Prep AD | Judge: Phoenix Pittman 1AC-Evergreening |
| Loyola | 3 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Asher Towner 1AC-Evergreening |
| Loyola | 5 | Opponent: Millard North JS | Judge: Ben Cortez 1AC-Evergreening disclosure |
| Meadows | 1 | Opponent: Canyon Crest SZ | Judge: KD Bond 1AC-Evergreening |
| Meadows | 3 | Opponent: Immac EL | Judge: Sam Larson 1AC-eg |
| Meadows | 5 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Jacob Smith 1AC-eg |
| Nano Nagle | 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EP | Judge: Felicity Park 1AC-Evergreening |
| Nano Nagle | 3 | Opponent: Samammish LW | Judge: David Salazar 1AC-Evergreening |
| Scarsdale | 4 | Opponent: Stuyvesant IL | Judge: Joshua StPeter 1AC-kant |
| Scarsdale | 6 | Opponent: Bronx RA | Judge: Victor Chen 1AC-kant |
| Scarsedale | 2 | Opponent: Princeton PE | Judge: Andrew Chin 1AC-lay |
| Yale | 2 | Opponent: Unionville PW | Judge: Lila Lavender 1AC-Evergreening |
| Yale | 3 | Opponent: Randolph CC | Judge: Mittal, Ashish 1AC-Evergreening |
| Yale | 5 | Opponent: Hunter AH | Judge: Wood, Tyler 1AC-Evergreening |
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0--Broken InterpsTournament: x | Round: Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 1/10/22 |
0--Contact InfoTournament: x | Round: Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 1/10/22 |
0--Disclosure noteTournament: x | Round: Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 1/10/22 |
0--Organization NoteTournament: x | Round: Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 1/10/22 |
1--Open source DisclosureTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Millard North JS | Judge: Ben Cortez DisclosureInterp: Debaters must open source all broken constructive positions from TOC bid tournaments on the 2021-2022 NDCA LD wiki after they read them.Violation: They don'tStandards1~ Levels the playing field—Antonucci 05 ~Michael (Debate coach for Georgetown; former coach for Lexington High School); "~eDebate~ open source? resp to Morris"; December 8; http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebate/2005-December/064806.html ~ 2~ Evidence ethics—disclosure is the only way to verify ethically cut cards, 4 minutes is too short, ev ethics is part of being a good academic that's a voterEducation—it's the only takeaway from debateAccess—not everyone has a fair shot and equitable educationDrop the debater for norm settingNo RVI a~ debaters bait theory for RVI's making LD worse b~ you don't get a cookie for being fairCompeting interps Reasonability requires judge intervention | 1/12/22 |
2--Evergreening v1Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Croix Prep AD | Judge: Phoenix Pittman 1AC - EvergreeningAdvantage1~ Patent evergreening is a crucial factor in the Opioid epidemic, AIDS epidemic, and cost of even basic allergy drugs – the fix is easy and improves market innovationAV 20 ("'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers." Arnold Ventures, Arnold Foundation, 24 Sept. 2020, www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/.)LK ~Accessed 8/23/2021~ 2~ patent evergreening guts access to insulinKaplan 17 (Kaplan, W.A., Beall, R.F. The global intellectual property ecosystem for insulin and its public health implications: an observational study. J of Pharm Policy and Pract 10, 3 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-016-0072-8 ~Affiliations. Warren A. Kaplan: Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health; Reed F. Beall: Population Health Program, Faculties of Medicine and of Law, University of Ottawa~)LK ~Accessed 8/22/21~ 3~ Lack of generics impacts millions – evergreening specifically is keyDewar et al 15 (Dewar, Heather, et al. "Why People with Diabetes Can't Buy Generic Insulin." Johns Hopkins Medicine, 18 Mar. 2015, www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_people_with_diabetes_cant_buy_generic_insulin. )LK ~Accessed 8/22/21~ 4~ Outweighs – it's the 3rd largest cause of death and err that the data is underreportedUPenn 17 (University of Pennsylvania. "Diabetes accounts for more US deaths than previously thought, study shows." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 January 2017. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125145848.htm)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ 5~ Patent evergreening causes AIDS backsliding – kills almost a million people EACH YEARFrontline AIDS ("How Patents Affect Access to Hiv Treatment." Frontline AIDS, 2 October 2019, frontlineaids.org/how-patents-affect-access-to-hiv-treatment/)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ *pppy = per person per year 6~ Evergreen patents increase costs and stifle drug innovation – almost 80 of new patents were not for new drugsRobin 18 (Robin Feldman, May your drug price be evergreen, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 590–647, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsy022 ~Robin Feldman, Hastings College of the Law, University of California~)LK ~Accessed 8/23/21~ 7~ Innovation solves disease, bioterror, antimicrobial resistance, and a host of existential threats. The response to COVID is the exception, not the rule, and more needs to be done to incentivize innovation even when high risk impacts aren't viewed as such by the general publicMarjanovic and Feijao 20 (Marjanovic, Sonja and Carolina Feijao, Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2020. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html)//LK ~Accessed 8/30/31~ 8~ Disease and bioweapons cause extinction – mathematically outweighs, even if they win mitigation.Millett 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 AdvocacyThus, the plan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by limiting drug innovators to one market exclusivity of their choice for their drug.Solves better than any counterplan – only the aff tackles incentivesFeldman 19 (Feldman, Robin. "Drug Patent Protection: It's Time for a 'One-and-Done' Approach." STAT, 11 Feb. 2019, www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/. ~Robin Feldman is professor of law and director of the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and author of "Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes" (Cambridge University Press, March 2019).~)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ FramingThe standard is maximizing expecting well being.1~ Actor specificity—-A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.—-B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments actively decide not to act so there is no omission2~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis – that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose.3~ Extinction matters under any framework:—-A~ It precludes the possibility of any kind of moral value – we can't confer value onto anything if we're not alive.—-B~ Future generations means infinite magnitude – we have to look towards future lives tooUnderview1AR theory –—-A~ AFF gets it because otherwise the neg can engage in infinite abuse, making debate impossible. No 2n theory – kills resolvability because judge has to intervene in weighing interp and 2ar counterinterp.—-B~ drop the debater – the short 1AR irreparably skewed from abuse on substance and time investment on theory.—-C~ no RVIs – the 6-minute 2nr can collapse to a short shell and get away with infinite 1nc abuse via sheer brute force and time spent on theory.—-D~ Use competing interps – 1AR interps aren't bidirectional and the neg should have to defend their norm since they have more time.Yes Aff RVIs—-A~ I have a 4 minute 1AR to answer T or Theory which skews my time from other arguments. T bites out of a higher percentage of my rebuttal time.—-B~ No risk issue for the negative, you can go for it in the 2nr if I undercover but if I overallocate you can just kick it.Fairness is a voter – debate is a competitive activity and needs both debaters to be on an equal playing field argumentatively. | 1/12/22 |
2--Evergreening v2Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Asher Towner 1AC – Evergreening V2AdvantageInnovation low now – secondary patents gut the incentive and skyrocket price of Naloxone, HIV meds, insulin, and even basic allergy drugs – the only comprehensive studyAV 20 ("'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers." Arnold Ventures, Arnold Foundation, 24 Sept. 2020, www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/.)LK ~Accessed 8/23/2021~ They're endemic to the industry and 80 of patents were not for new drugs – their stats ignore the quality of the innovation which is nonexistantRobin 18 (Robin Feldman, May your drug price be evergreen, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 590–647, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsy022 ~Robin Feldman, Hastings College of the Law, University of California~)LK ~Accessed 8/23/21~ Secondary patents are the root cause and less than 1/6 of revenues go to RandD – ignore their lies told by big pharmaRadhakrishnan 16 Priti Radhakrishnan 6-14-2016 "Pharma's secret weapon to keep drug prices high" https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/14/secondary-patent-gilead-sovaldi-harvoni/ (Priti Radhakrishnan is cofounder and director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK), a US-based nonprofit group of scientists and lawyers working globally to get people lifesaving medicines. Before founding I-MAK, she worked as a health attorney in the US, Switzerland, and India.)Elmer LK ~RCT~ Independently, it's the root cause of AIDS backsliding – kills millions each yearFrontline AIDS ("How Patents Affect Access to Hiv Treatment." Frontline AIDS, 2 October 2019, frontlineaids.org/how-patents-affect-access-to-hiv-treatment/)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ *pppy = per person per year We control uniqueness – innovation is low now and it solves disease, bioterror and antimicrobial resistance. The response to COVID is the exception, not the rule.Marjanovic and Feijao 20 (Marjanovic, Sonja and Carolina Feijao, Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2020. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html)//LK ~Accessed 8/30/31~ 3 Impacts:1~ Antimicrobial resistance triggers extinction.Srivatsa '17 (Kadiyali; specialist in pediatric intensive and critical care medicine in the UK. Invented the bacterial identification tool 'MAYA'; 1-12-2017; "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them", American Interest; https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/, Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) 2~ Pharma spills-over – has cascading global impacts that are necessary for human survival.NAS 8 National Academy of Sciences 12-3-2008 "The Role of the Life Sciences in Transforming America's Future Summary of a Workshop" Re-cut by Elmer Climate change destroys the world.Specktor 19 ~Brandon writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years~ 6-4-2019, "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html JW 3~ Disease and bioweapons cause extinction – mathematically outweighs, even if they win mitigation.Millett 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 AdvocacyThus, the plan: the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by limiting drug innovators to one market exclusivity of their choice for their drug.Solves better than any counterplan – only the aff tackles incentivesFeldman 19 (Feldman, Robin. "Drug Patent Protection: It's Time for a 'One-and-Done' Approach." STAT, 11 Feb. 2019, www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/. ~Robin Feldman is professor of law and director of the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and author of "Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes" (Cambridge University Press, March 2019).~)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ Framing —- UtilThe standard is maximizing expecting well being.1~ Actor specificity—-A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.—-B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments actively decide not to act so there is no omission2~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis – that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose.3~ Extinction matters under any framework:—-A~ It precludes the possibility of any kind of moral value – we can't confer value onto anything if we're not alive.—-B~ Future generations means infinite magnitude – we have to look towards future lives tooUnderveiw1AR theory –—-A~ AFF gets it because otherwise the neg can engage in infinite abuse, making debate impossible. No 2n theory – kills resolvability because judge has to intervene in weighing interp and 2ar counterinterp.—-B~ drop the debater – the short 1AR irreparably skewed from abuse on substance and time investment on theory.—-C~ no RVIs – the 6-minute 2nr can collapse to a short shell and get away with infinite 1nc abuse via sheer brute force and time spent on theory.—-D~ Use competing interps – 1AR interps aren't bidirectional and the neg should have to defend their norm since they have more time.Yes Aff RVIs—-A~ I have a 4 minute 1AR to answer T or Theory which skews my time from other arguments. T bites out of a higher percentage of my rebuttal time.—-B~ No risk issue for the negative, you can go for it in the 2nr if I undercover but if I overallocate you can just kick it. | 1/12/22 |
2--Evergreening v3Tournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Millard North JS | Judge: Ben Cortez 1AC – Evergreening V3AdvantageInnovation low now – secondary patents gut the incentive and skyrocket price of Naloxone, HIV meds, insulin, and even basic allergy drugs – the only comprehensive studyAV 20 ("'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers." Arnold Ventures, Arnold Foundation, 24 Sept. 2020, www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/.)LK ~Accessed 8/23/2021~ They're endemic to the industry and 80 of patents were not for new drugs – their stats ignore the quality of the innovation which is nonexistentRobin 18 (Robin Feldman, May your drug price be evergreen, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 590–647, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsy022 ~Robin Feldman, Hastings College of the Law, University of California~)LK ~Accessed 8/23/21~ Secondary patents are the root cause and less than 1/6 of revenues go to RandD – ignore their lies told by big pharmaRadhakrishnan 16 Priti Radhakrishnan 6-14-2016 "Pharma's secret weapon to keep drug prices high" https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/14/secondary-patent-gilead-sovaldi-harvoni/ (Priti Radhakrishnan is cofounder and director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK), a US-based nonprofit group of scientists and lawyers working globally to get people lifesaving medicines. Before founding I-MAK, she worked as a health attorney in the US, Switzerland, and India.)Elmer LK ~RCT~ We control uniqueness – innovation is low now and it solves disease, bioterror and antimicrobial resistance. The response to COVID is the exception, not the rule.Marjanovic and Feijao 20 (Marjanovic, Sonja and Carolina Feijao, Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2020. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html)//LK ~Accessed 8/30/31~ 3 Impacts:1~ Antimicrobial resistance triggers extinction.Srivatsa '17 (Kadiyali; specialist in pediatric intensive and critical care medicine in the UK. Invented the bacterial identification tool 'MAYA'; 1-12-2017; "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them", American Interest; https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/, Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) 2~ Biotech is k2 reductions of CO2, particularly carbon sequestrationWakjira Tesfahun 6-11-2018, "Climate change Mitigation and Adaptation through Biotechnology Approaches: A review," https://lupinepublishers.com/agriculture-journal/fulltext/climate-change-mitigation-and-adaptation-through-biotechnology-approaches-a-review.ID.000154.php Carbon capture is k2 stopping climate changeAylin Woodward, 11-12-2020, "Any hope of keeping Earth habitable now requires sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere, a new study found," Business Insider, https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-too-late-carbon-capture-needed-2020-11 Climate change destroys the world.Specktor 19 ~Brandon writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years~ 6-4-2019, "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html JW AdvocacyThus, the plan: the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by limiting drug innovators to one market exclusivity of their choice for their drug.Solves better than any counterplan – only the aff tackles incentivesFeldman 19 (Feldman, Robin. "Drug Patent Protection: It's Time for a 'One-and-Done' Approach." STAT, 11 Feb. 2019, www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/. ~Robin Feldman is professor of law and director of the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and author of "Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes" (Cambridge University Press, March 2019).~)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ Framing —- UtilThe standard is maximizing expecting well being.1~ Actor specificity—-A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.—-B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments actively decide not to act so there is no omission2~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis – that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose.3~ Extinction matters under any framework:—-A~ It precludes the possibility of any kind of moral value – we can't confer value onto anything if we're not alive.—-B~ Future generations means infinite magnitude – we have to look towards future lives too | 1/12/22 |
2--Evergreening v4Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Unionville PW | Judge: Lila Lavender Evergreening v4AdvantageInnovation low now – secondary patents gut the incentive and skyrocket price of Naloxone, HIV meds, insulin, and even basic allergy drugs – the only comprehensive studyAV 20 ("'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers." Arnold Ventures, Arnold Foundation, 24 Sept. 2020, www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/.)LK ~Accessed 8/23/2021~ They're endemic to the industry and 80 of patents were not for new drugs – their stats ignore the quality of the innovation which is nonexistentRobin 18 (Robin Feldman, May your drug price be evergreen, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 590–647, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsy022 ~Robin Feldman, Hastings College of the Law, University of California~)LK ~Accessed 8/23/21~ Secondary patents are the root cause and less than 1/6 of revenues go to RandD – ignore their lies told by big pharmaRadhakrishnan 16 Priti Radhakrishnan 6-14-2016 "Pharma's secret weapon to keep drug prices high" https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/14/secondary-patent-gilead-sovaldi-harvoni/ (Priti Radhakrishnan is cofounder and director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK), a US-based nonprofit group of scientists and lawyers working globally to get people lifesaving medicines. Before founding I-MAK, she worked as a health attorney in the US, Switzerland, and India.)Elmer LK ~RCT~ Independently, it's the root cause of AIDS backsliding – kills millions each yearFrontline AIDS ("How Patents Affect Access to Hiv Treatment." Frontline AIDS, 2 October 2019, frontlineaids.org/how-patents-affect-access-to-hiv-treatment/)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ *pppy = per person per year We control uniqueness – innovation is low now and it solves disease, bioterror and antimicrobial resistance. The response to COVID is the exception, not the rule.Marjanovic and Feijao 20 (Marjanovic, Sonja and Carolina Feijao, Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2020. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html)//LK ~Accessed 8/30/31~ 3 Impacts:1~ Antimicrobial resistance triggers extinction.Srivatsa '17 (Kadiyali; specialist in pediatric intensive and critical care medicine in the UK. Invented the bacterial identification tool 'MAYA'; 1-12-2017; "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them", American Interest; https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/, Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) 2~ Innovation is key to treat neglected tropical diseases – that revives global health diplomacyHotez 16, Peter J. Blue marble health: an innovative plan to fight diseases of the poor amid wealth. JHU Press, 2016. (Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology)Elmer LK ~RCT 9/15/2021~ Solves hotspot escalationNang and Martin 17, Roberto N., and Keith Martin. "Global health diplomacy: A new strategic defense pillar." Military medicine 182.1-2 (2017): 1456-1460. (MC, Global Health Division, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)Elmer 3~ Disease and bioweapons cause extinction – mathematically outweighs, even if they win mitigation.Millett 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 AdvocacyThus, the plan: the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by limiting drug innovators to one market exclusivity of their choice for their drug.Solves better than any counterplan – only the aff tackles incentivesFeldman 19 (Feldman, Robin. "Drug Patent Protection: It's Time for a 'One-and-Done' Approach." STAT, 11 Feb. 2019, www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/. ~Robin Feldman is professor of law and director of the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and author of "Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes" (Cambridge University Press, March 2019).~)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ Framing —- UtilThe standard is maximizing expecting well being.1~ Actor specificity—-A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.—-B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments actively decide not to act so there is no omission2~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis – that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose.3~ Extinction matters under any framework:—-A~ It precludes the possibility of any kind of moral value – we can't confer value onto anything if we're not alive.—-B~ Future generations means infinite magnitude – we have to look towards future lives tooUnderveiw1AR theory –—-A~ AFF gets it because otherwise the neg can engage in infinite abuse, making debate impossible. No 2n theory – kills resolvability because judge has to intervene in weighing interp and 2ar counterinterp.—-B~ drop the debater – the short 1AR irreparably skewed from abuse on substance and time investment on theory.—-C~ no RVIs – the 6-minute 2nr can collapse to a short shell and get away with infinite 1nc abuse via sheer brute force and time spent on theoryD~ Use competing interps – 1AR interps aren't bidirectional and the neg should have to defend their norm since they have more time.Yes Aff RVIs—-A~ I have a 4-minute 1AR to answer T or Theory which skews my time from other arguments. T bites out of a higher percentage of my rebuttal time.—-B~ No risk issue for the negative, you can go for it in the 2nr if I undercover but if I overallocate you can just kick it.Fairness is a voter – debate is a competitive activity and needs both debaters to be on an equal playing field argumentatively. | 1/12/22 |
2--Evergreening v5Tournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Randolph CC | Judge: Mittal, Ashish 1AC - EvergreeningThe sole Contention is evergreeningPatent Evergreening Is the practice of a company obtaining multiple patents for the same drug by making miniscule changes that don't have therapeutic benefits, they get a practically infinite monopoly on the drugPatent evergreening is a crucial factor in the Opioid epidemic, AIDS epidemic, and cost of even basic allergy drugs – the fix is easy and improves market innovationAV 20 ("'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers." Arnold Ventures, Arnold Foundation, 24 Sept. 2020, www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/.)LK ~Accessed 8/23/2021~ A – patent evergreening guts access to insulinKaplan 17 (Kaplan, W.A., Beall, R.F. The global intellectual property ecosystem for insulin and its public health implications: an observational study. J of Pharm Policy and Pract 10, 3 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-016-0072-8 ~Affiliations. Warren A. Kaplan: Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health; Reed F. Beall: Population Health Program, Faculties of Medicine and of Law, University of Ottawa~)LK ~Accessed 8/22/21~ Lack of generics impacts millions – evergreening specifically is keyDewar et al 15 (Dewar, Heather, et al. "Why People with Diabetes Can't Buy Generic Insulin." Johns Hopkins Medicine, 18 Mar. 2015, www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_people_with_diabetes_cant_buy_generic_insulin. )LK ~Accessed 8/22/21~ Outweighs – it's the 3rd largest cause of death and err that the data is underreportedUPenn 17 (University of Pennsylvania. "Diabetes accounts for more US deaths than previously thought, study shows." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 January 2017. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125145848.htm)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ B – Patent evergreening causes AIDS backsliding – kills almost a million people EACH YEARFrontline AIDS ("How Patents Affect Access to Hiv Treatment." Frontline AIDS, 2 October 2019, frontlineaids.org/how-patents-affect-access-to-hiv-treatment/)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ *pppy = per person per year AdvocacyThus, the plan: the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by limiting drug innovators to one market exclusivity of their choice for their drug.Solves better than any counterplan – only the aff tackles incentivesFeldman 19 (Feldman, Robin. "Drug Patent Protection: It's Time for a 'One-and-Done' Approach." STAT, 11 Feb. 2019, www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/. ~Robin Feldman is professor of law and director of the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and author of "Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes" (Cambridge University Press, March 2019).~)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ FramingOnly structural violence can explain material situations. Bagg 16Samuel Bagg 16, Department of Political Science, Duke University, "Between Critical and Normative Theory: Predictive Political Theory as a Deweyan Realism," Political Research Quarterly June 2016 vol. 69 no. 2 233-244 Thus the standard is minimizing oppression. Prefer additionally—1~ All other frameworks presume an equal starting point which creates exclusion – that makes them arbitrary which is a side constraint on ethics because ethics should apply to everyone.2~ Probability firsta~ 1 doctrine is impossible to use - both acting and not acting always risk extinctionb~ 1 doctrine causes a race to the bottom to terrible scenarios with bigger impacts – guts education and makes debates worse quality3~ Ongoing violence outweighs – especially health crises. Any extinction first arg they read is complicit with the plan of the ruling class to distract you from real threats.Jackson 12 ~Richard; 8/5/12; Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Canterbury, Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Otago, Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, former senior lecturer at the University of Manchester; Richard Jackson Terrorism Blog, "The Great Con of National Security," https://richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/the-great-con-of-national-security/; ABML~LK ~RCT 8/30/2021~ | 1/12/22 |
2--Evergreening v6Tournament: Yale | Round: 5 | Opponent: Hunter AH | Judge: Wood, Tyler Evergreening v6AdvantageInnovation low now – secondary patents gut the incentive and skyrocket price of Naloxone, HIV meds, insulin, and even basic allergy drugs – the only comprehensive studyAV 20 ("'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers." Arnold Ventures, Arnold Foundation, 24 Sept. 2020, www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/.)LK ~Accessed 8/23/2021~ They're endemic to the industry and 80 of patents were not for new drugs – their stats ignore the quality of the innovation which is nonexistentRobin 18 (Robin Feldman, May your drug price be evergreen, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 590–647, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsy022 ~Robin Feldman, Hastings College of the Law, University of California~)LK ~Accessed 8/23/21~ Secondary patents are the root cause and less than 1/6 of revenues go to RandD – ignore their lies told by big pharmaRadhakrishnan 16 Priti Radhakrishnan 6-14-2016 "Pharma's secret weapon to keep drug prices high" https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/14/secondary-patent-gilead-sovaldi-harvoni/ (Priti Radhakrishnan is cofounder and director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK), a US-based nonprofit group of scientists and lawyers working globally to get people lifesaving medicines. Before founding I-MAK, she worked as a health attorney in the US, Switzerland, and India.)Elmer LK ~RCT~ We control uniqueness – innovation is low now and it solves disease, bioterror and antimicrobial resistance. The response to COVID is the exception, not the rule.Marjanovic and Feijao 20 (Marjanovic, Sonja and Carolina Feijao, Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2020. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html)//LK ~Accessed 8/30/31~ 3 Impacts:1~ Antimicrobial resistance triggers extinction.Srivatsa '17 (Kadiyali; specialist in pediatric intensive and critical care medicine in the UK. Invented the bacterial identification tool 'MAYA'; 1-12-2017; "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them", American Interest; https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/, Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) 2~ Innovation is key to treat neglected tropical diseases – that revives global health diplomacyHotez 16, Peter J. Blue marble health: an innovative plan to fight diseases of the poor amid wealth. JHU Press, 2016. (Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology)Elmer LK ~RCT 9/15/2021~ Solves hotspot escalationNang and Martin 17, Roberto N., and Keith Martin. "Global health diplomacy: A new strategic defense pillar." Military medicine 182.1-2 (2017): 1456-1460. (MC, Global Health Division, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)Elmer 3~ Disease and bioweapons cause extinction – mathematically outweighs, even if they win mitigation.Millett 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 AdvocacyThus, the plan: the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by limiting drug innovators to one market exclusivity of their choice for their drug.Solves better than any counterplan – only the aff tackles incentivesFeldman 19 (Feldman, Robin. "Drug Patent Protection: It's Time for a 'One-and-Done' Approach." STAT, 11 Feb. 2019, www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/. ~Robin Feldman is professor of law and director of the Institute for Innovation Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and author of "Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes" (Cambridge University Press, March 2019).~)LK ~Accessed 8/25/2021~ Framing —- UtilThe standard is maximizing expecting well being.1~ Actor specificity—-A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.—-B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments actively decide not to act so there is no omission2~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis – that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose.3~ Extinction matters under any framework:—-A~ It precludes the possibility of any kind of moral value – we can't confer value onto anything if we're not alive.—-B~ Future generations means infinite magnitude – we have to look towards future lives tooUnderveiw1AR theory –—-A~ AFF gets it because otherwise the neg can engage in infinite abuse, making debate impossible. No 2n theory – kills resolvability because judge has to intervene in weighing interp and 2ar counterinterp.—-B~ drop the debater – the short 1AR irreparably skewed from abuse on substance and time investment on theory. | 1/12/22 |
3--Cap v1Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: Interlake DB | Judge: Albert Cardenas CAP AFFAdvantageCAP SUCKSCAP SUCKS – 3 Scenarios1~ Capitalism is entering a crisis of overaccumulation: economic stagnation driven by inequality and low consumption is inevitable under capitalism and causes military expansion that culminates in global war with Russia or China.Robinson 21 ~Robinson, William I., prof. sociology and global studies @ UCSB: "What are the real reasons behind the New Cold War?" ROAR Magazine, published 5-6-21, https://roarmag.org/essays/new-cold-war-crisis-capitalism/?fbclid=IwAR2RzXn0SMlPSiLfXcXNtTcDIybQa6GxH_eodUmyEww2i59lh5qHpZpcwhk~~//AD LK ~RCT 11/30/2021~ Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risksPND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock's 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans' International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer 2~ Multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Extinction – key tipping points are SOONAhmed 19 (Ahmed, Nafeez. "'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End' in 2050, New Report Suggests." VICE, 3 June 2019, https://www.vice.com/en/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050. ~Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a British investigative journalist, author and academic. He is editor of the crowdfunded investigative journalism platform INSURGE intelligence. He is a former environment blogger for The Guardian from March 2013 to July 2014.~)LK ~Accessed 11/30/21~ PlanThus, the plan: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.1~ Status quo labor movements present a key opportunity for liberation, but state violence against strikers prevents it from catalyzing effectively – protections are key.Grevatt 21 (Grevatt, Martha. "Striketober!" Workers World, 20 Oct. 2021, https://www.workers.org/2021/10/59666/.)//LK ~Accessed 11/28/21~ 2~ Specifically, micro-work strikes collapse the tech industry – that spills overJones 21 (Phil Jones is a researcher for the think tank Autonomy. He regularly writes for publications such as the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the New Statesman and Novara Media). Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism. Verso Books, 2021. LHP AB The aff collectivizes micro workersDufresne 21 (Dufresne, Anne, and Cédric Leterme. "App Workers United." The Left in the European Parliament, European Parliamentary Group, Jan. 2021, https://mirador-multinationales.be/IMG/pdf/study_empl_version_finale_en.pdf. LHP AB) FramingThe Role of the Judge is to be a propagandist. Studies prove debate is inevitably implicated in the context of propaganda – voting aff aligns with a model predicated on communist base-building.Greene and Hicks '6 The standard is maximizing expecting well being.1~ Actor specificity—-A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.—-B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments actively decide not to act so there is no omission2~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis – that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose. | 1/12/22 |
3--Cap v2Tournament: Alta | Round: 4 | Opponent: Denver East LF | Judge: Sara Erickson CAP AFFAdvantageCAP SUCKSCAP SUCKS – 2 Scenarios1~ Capitalism is entering a crisis of overaccumulation: economic stagnation driven by inequality and low consumption is inevitable under capitalism and causes military expansion that culminates in global war with Russia or China.Robinson 21 ~Robinson, William I., prof. sociology and global studies @ UCSB: "What are the real reasons behind the New Cold War?" ROAR Magazine, published 5-6-21, https://roarmag.org/essays/new-cold-war-crisis-capitalism/?fbclid=IwAR2RzXn0SMlPSiLfXcXNtTcDIybQa6GxH_eodUmyEww2i59lh5qHpZpcwhk~~//AD LK ~RCT 11/30/2021~ Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risksPND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock's 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans' International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer 2~ Multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Extinction – key tipping points are SOONAhmed 19 (Ahmed, Nafeez. "'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End' in 2050, New Report Suggests." VICE, 3 June 2019, https://www.vice.com/en/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050. ~Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a British investigative journalist, author and academic. He is editor of the crowdfunded investigative journalism platform INSURGE intelligence. He is a former environment blogger for The Guardian from March 2013 to July 2014.~)LK ~Accessed 11/30/21~ PlanThus, the plan: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.1~ Status quo labor movements present a key opportunity for liberation, but state violence against strikers prevents it from catalyzing effectively – protections are key.Grevatt 21 (Grevatt, Martha. "Striketober!" Workers World, 20 Oct. 2021, https://www.workers.org/2021/10/59666/.)//LK ~Accessed 11/28/21~ 2~ Specifically, micro-work strikes collapse the tech industry – that spills overJones 21 (Phil Jones is a researcher for the think tank Autonomy. He regularly writes for publications such as the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the New Statesman and Novara Media). Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism. Verso Books, 2021. LHP AB The aff collectivizes micro workersDufresne 21 (Dufresne, Anne, and Cédric Leterme. "App Workers United." The Left in the European Parliament, European Parliamentary Group, Jan. 2021, https://mirador-multinationales.be/IMG/pdf/study_empl_version_finale_en.pdf. LHP AB) FramingThe Role of the Judge is to be a propagandist. Studies prove debate is inevitably implicated in the context of propaganda – voting aff aligns with a model predicated on communist base-building.Greene and Hicks '6 The standard is maximizing expecting well being.1~ Actor specificity—-A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.—-B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments actively decide not to act so there is no omission2~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis – that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose.3~ Extinction matters under any framework:—-A~ It precludes the possibility of any kind of moral value – we can't confer value onto anything if we're not alive.DisclosureInterp: Debaters must open source all broken constructive positions except for anything relating to their identity from TOC bid tournaments on the 2021-2022 NDCA LD wiki after they read them.Violation: They don't and they read T which doesn't pertain to their identityLevels the playing field—Antonucci 05 ~Michael (Debate coach for Georgetown; former coach for Lexington High School); "~eDebate~ open source? resp to Morris"; December 8; http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebate/2005-December/064806.html ~ | 1/12/22 |
3--Cap v3Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough LF | Judge: Josh WeinGarten | 12/4/21 |
3--Cap v4Tournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Eagan AE | Judge: Baez, Alex | 12/10/21 |
3--Cap v5Tournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Rosemount RS | Judge: Sutton, Dylan | 12/11/21 |
3--Kant v1Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 4 | Opponent: Stuyvesant IL | Judge: Joshua StPeter | 12/2/21 |
3--Kant v2Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bronx RA | Judge: Victor Chen | 12/2/21 |
3--PettitTournament: Scarsedale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Princeton PE | Judge: Andrew Chin | 12/2/21 |
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