Tournament: UK Season Opener | Round: 1 | Opponent: Woodrow Wilson SR | Judge: Quentin Clark
Biopharma RandD is surging, but it’s shaky because of productivity levels – now is not a time to let up
Adams 5/19 Ben Adams, Ben Adams is a business, science and healthcare journalist, 5-19-2021, "Biopharma RandD 'surged' in 2020, but trial productivity levels a mixed bag: report," FierceBiotech, https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/biopharma-r-d-surged-2020-but-trial-productivity-levels-a-mixed-bag-report WW LD
A major global pandemic --- better lifesaving therapies and vaccines.”
Patents foster innovation
Grabowski et al 15 Henry G. Grabowski, Joseph A. DiMasi, and Genia Long, February 2015, "The Roles Of Patents And Research And Development Incentives In Biopharmaceutical Innovation," https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1047 WW DL
The essential rationale --- federal government; none has been granted.
Biotech relies on innovation from pharma
Cooper 6 Garth JS Cooper, independent medical scientist at the University of Auckland, “Fates Intertwined,” March 2006, https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/file/cogem/cogem_t4505194e_001.pdf recut WW LD
Biotechnology and pharmaceuticals --- therapeutics will flourish.
Biotech is key to solving food insecurity
Doyle 08 Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, 6-3-2008, "Biotechnology seen as a key to solving food crisis," U.S., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-food-summit-biotech/biotechnology-seen-as-a-key-to-solving-food-crisis-idUSL0356693120080603 WW LD
“Biotechnology is one --- vulnerability of Bangladesh. “
Food wars go nuclear—multiple studies
FDI 12 (Future Directions International - a Research institute providing strategic analysis of Australia’s global interests; citing Lindsay Falvery - PhD in Agricultural Science and former Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Institute of Land and Environment, “Food and Water Insecurity: International Conflict Triggers and Potential Conflict Points,” 5/25/12, http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/international-conflict-triggers-and-potential-conflict-points-resulting-from-food-and-water-insecurity/) recut WW DL
There is a growing appreciation --- possibly even nuclear war.
Food insecurity cause extinction
Cribb ‘10 Julian, principal of JCA, fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, “The Coming Famine: The¶ Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It”, pg 10 recut WW LD/WWVL
The character of human conflict has also --- changes, because of the synergetic character of the things that power it.