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| Duke Invitational | 1 | Lake Highland Prep SV | Li, Wei |
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| Kansas City Invitational | 2 | Liberty OL | Mitchell, Parker |
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| New York City Invitational | 2 | NSU SF | Ribera, Claudia |
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| Yale Invitational | 2 | Byram Hills EW | Li, Richard |
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| Yale Invitational | 4 | Lake Highland Prep PS | Etienne, Fabrice |
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| Duke Invitational | 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SV | Judge: Li, Wei 1AC - Evergreening |
| Kansas City Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Liberty OL | Judge: Mitchell, Parker 1ac - debris launches militarization |
| New York City Invitational | 2 | Opponent: NSU SF | Judge: Ribera, Claudia 1AC - Evergreening |
| Yale Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Byram Hills EW | Judge: Li, Richard 1AC - Evergreening |
| Yale Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Etienne, Fabrice 1AC - Evergreening |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: x | Round: Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 9/17/21 |
JF - Debris - v1Tournament: Kansas City Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty OL | Judge: Mitchell, Parker DebrisPrivatization of space is unsustainable and increases debris – triggers the Kessler SyndromeThompson 21 ~Clive, 11/17/21, Clive Thompson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, a columnist for Wired and Smithsonian magazines, and a regular contributor to Mother Jones. He’s the author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, and Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing our Minds for the Better. He’s @pomeranian99 on Twitter and Instagram, "Get Ready for the "Kessler Syndrome" to Wreck Outer Space," OneZero, https://onezero.medium.com/get-ready-for-the-kessler-syndrome-to-wreck-outer-space-7f29cfe62c3e~~ Justin AND orbit but unintentional ones — bits of rocket parts and detritus from launches. Privatization exponentially increases the curve but ending dangerous missions prevents it.Bernat 20 ~Pawel, 2020, Military University of Aviation, "ORBITAL SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS AND THE GROWING THREAT OF KESSLER SYNDROME IN THE LOWER EARTH ORBIT," SAFETY ENGINEERING OF ANTHROPOGENIC OBJECTS, Volume 4, PDF~ Justin AND the global level, apart from first-come, first-served. Debris causes nuclear war—-Noko, Iran, and China.Beauchamp 14 – Zack, 4/21/14, Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers global politics and ideology, and a host of Worldly, Vox's podcast on foreign policy and international relations. His work focuses on the rise of the populist right across the West, the role of identity in American politics, and how fringe ideologies shape the mainstream. Before coming to Vox, he edited TP Ideas, a section of Think Progress devoted to the ideas shaping our political world. He has an MSc from the London School of Economics in International Relations and grew up in Washington, DC, where he currently lives with his wife, daughter, and two (rescue) dogs ~"How space trash could start a nuclear war," Vox, https://www.vox.com/2014/4/21/5625246/space-war-china-north-korea-iran~~ Justin *Brackets added for ableist language AND war is imminent — an assessment that could have self-fulfilling consequences." Any nuclear war causes extinction – ice age and famine.Steven Starr 15 ~Director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, as well as a senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He has worked with the Swiss, Chilean, and Swedish governments in support of their efforts at the United Nations to eliminate thousands of high-alert, launch-ready U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. "Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen." Ratical. March 2015. https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html~~ TG AND the operational and deployed nuclear arsenals, will leave the Earth essentially uninhabitable. | 1/29/22 |
JF - Space Militarization - v1Tournament: Kansas City Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty OL | Judge: Mitchell, Parker Space MilitarizationDesire to protect profitable LEO constellations leads states to militarize outer space—specifically with ASATs.Bernat 19 "The Inevitability of Militarization of Outer Space" Pawel Bernat ~Assistant Professor, Polish Air Force University~ Safety and Defense 5(1) (2019) 49–54 https://philarchive.org/archive/BERTIO-52 SM AND , will gain have access to them (Bernat, Posluszna, 2018). China, Russia, and the US are developing dual use co-orbital ASATs that can stalk and attack other satellites using rendezvous and proximity operations – they make miscalculation highly likelyChow ’17 - independent policy analyst with over 25 years as a senior physical scientist specializing in space and national security. He holds a PhD in physics from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA with distinction and PhD in finance from the University of Michigan. Brian G Chow, "Stalkers in Space: Defeating the Threat," Strategic Studies Quarterly 11, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 82-116, https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/SSQ/documents/Volume-11'Issue-2/Chow.pdf. AND measures for US response are essentially the same for both China and Russia. Unknown legal thresholds for escalation make inadvertent escalation highly likelyMacDonald ’18 – senior director of the Nonproliferation and Arms Control Project with the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Adjunct Lecturer at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Bruce MacDonald, "Chapter 2. Space and Escalation" in Outer Space; Earthly Escalation? Chinese Perspectives on Space Operations and Escalation, A Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) Periodic Publication, August 2018, https://nsiteam.com/social/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/SMA-White-Paper'Chinese-Persepectives-on-Space'-Aug-2018.pdf AND potentially hostile acts—or in fact be used to commit hostile acts. | 1/29/22 |
SO - Evergreening - v1Tournament: Yale Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Byram Hills EW | Judge: Li, Richard 1AC - Evergreening
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SO - Evergreening - v1Tournament: Yale Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Etienne, Fabrice 1AC - Evergreening
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SO - Evergreening - v2Tournament: Duke Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SV | Judge: Li, Wei I affirm: the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.Framing —- UtilI value morality as implied by "ought" in the resolution. The Advantage is EvergreeningPatent 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~ AND billions of dollars while increasing the incentives for pharmaceutical companies to achieve breakthroughs." 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~ AND manufactures globally to consider this opportunity to enter other, far smaller markets. Outweighs – it’s the 3rd largest cause of deathUPenn 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~ AND . It's not an issue that's confined to certain subsets of the population." 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 AND put into practice we risk undermining the commitments made to the HIV response. C – 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~ AND exclusivity, but also other significant changes such as adding a use code.) Innovation solves disease, bioterror, antimicrobial resistance, and a host of existential threats. Innovation may to be high for Covid, but Covid is the exception - many impactful diseases do not share the same media attention and scope as CovidMarjanovic 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~ AND different types of infectious disease threats and phases in framing incentives and regulation. 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 AND still ought to invest more in preventing the most extreme possible biosecurity catastrophes. 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~ AND right now, the incentives for creating patent walls are just too great. | 10/2/21 |
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