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  • This house believes that states should invest in dendritic cell vaccine research over expanding traditional cancer chemotherapies (i.e. use of classic cytotoxic agents that indiscriminately target all rapidly dividing cells).

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    Dendritic cell vaccines are a personalized cancer treatment that uses the patient’s own dendritic cells, which help the immune system recognize threats. These cells are taken from the blood and trained in the lab with pieces of the patient’s tumor called tumorassociated antigens (TAAs). When put back into the body, they activate special immune cells called T cells to find and destroy cancer cells. In the Philippines this is offered in a limited capacity by the Lung Center of the Philippines and The Medical City among others. A meta-analysis of six randomized controlled trials with 347 brain cancer patients found that dendritic cell vaccines alone improved overall survival compared to placebo (31% reduction in risk, 95% Confidence Interval, p = 0.03).

    Xavier Cup 12 · Round 2 · 2025-05-25

  • This house supports the legalization of experimental drugs in Canada

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    Experimental drugs are medicinal drugs that have been tested in a laboratory and are in the process of human clinical trials.

    Waterloo Spring HST 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-24

  • This house believes that governments of developed countries should prioritise funding telemedicine services & providers over physical healthcare

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    Telemedicine refers to the delivery of healthcare services remotely through digital communication & AI technologies. It includes services such as online consultations and appointments, electronic health records, and increased online commerce in health products (e.g. treatment plans, medicine commerce, patient data records etc.)

    Kings College London Pre- EUDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-24

  • This house, as Mimi, would enter San Junipero

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    San Junipero is a Virtual Reality universe which simulates real life perfectly - people who enter it experience the world exactly as they would their life outside of it. San Junipero brings any person who enters it back into their twenty-year old self and body, and into an exact replica of their life at the time. Once one enters San Junipero, they remain there for the rest of their life, and are completely unaware they are in a simulation. You are Mimi, an 80-year old widow, mother and grandmother who lives alone.

    Kings College London Pre- EUDC 2025 · ESL Final · 2025-05-24

  • This house would ban non-compete agreements in the tech industry.

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    A non-compete agreement is a legal agreement or clause in an employment contract specifying that an employee must not enter into a job for another employer who competes with their current employer for a designated period of time after their employment is over.

    Wego Debate Open 2025 · Silver Semifinals · 2025-05-24

  • This house would ban non-compete agreements in the tech industry.

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    A non-compete agreement is a legal agreement or clause in an employment contract specifying that an employee must not enter into a job for another employer who competes with their current employer for a designated period of time after their employment is over.

    Wego Debate Open 2025 · Gold Semifinals · 2025-05-24

  • C) This House prefers a world with SoulVault

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    C) The "SoulVault" is a chip that is implanted in each person's brain at birth and records all their memories and thoughts. It also bifurcates these moments in boxes based on how the person perceived these moments emotionally (e.g. happy box, sad box, etc.) The contents of this chip are not accessible to anyone, including the person while they are alive. As soon as they die, the contents of the chip are made accessible to their heir. Once viewed, memories self-erase and the contents cannot be accessed ever again. The contents of the chip can also not be copied or recorded using any external device.

    DTU Summers Pre-UADC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-05-17

  • B) This House opposes the "move fast, break things" philosophy in the tech sector

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    B) "Move fast, break things" refers to the philosophy that advocates for rapid innovation and development, prioritising speed and agility over perfection and caution. It also encapsulates a mindset that encourages taking risks, experimenting, and iterating quickly, even if it means encountering failures along the way.

    DTU Summers Pre-UADC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-05-17

  • This House would require that financial data relevant to the public domain to be managed as an open source system

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    Currently, most market-relevant financial data (e.g. trading volume, lending and banking statistics, companies' ESG impacts, inflation dynamics, etc.) are managed by private proprietors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, and NASDAQ, charging a considerable amount of licensing fees for the access and use of those data. An open-source system, along with allowing low-cost, public access to content, is one whose code or architecture is able to be publicly scrutinized. In finance, it is possible to make such systems highly secure through transparent development and customizable security measures.

    DTU Summers Pre-UADC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-05-17

  • This House would ban "zero-commission" stock trading platforms.

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    Zero-commission stock trading platforms (e.g. Robinhood, Webull, Toss Bank) allow users to buy and sell stocks without paying traditional brokerage fees. Instead of charging users directly, many of these platforms earn revenue through a practice called Payment for Order Flow (PFOF), in which they route customer orders to third-party market makers in exchange for compensation. Users may end up receiving less favorable execution prices compared to traditional brokers, meaning they could effectively pay more for each trade despite the lack of upfront fees.

    KUDC x HYDS KIDA National Championship 2025 · Round 6 · 2025-05-16