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  • The board, as a growing pharmaceutical company, will choose a focused strategy rather than a diversified one.

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    Pharmaceutical companies are generally divided into two major types: diversified and focused. Diversified companies like AstraZeneca have a broad portfolio of products across various therapeutic areas such as vaccines, cancer, cardiovascular, and respiratory. On the other hand, focused companies like Novo Nordisk concentrate deeply on one or two therapeutic areas, for instance, diabetes and obesity. This classification influences each company's research strategy, product development, and business direction.

    Gadjah Mada Intervarsity 2025 - Divisi Bahasa Indonesia · Round 2 · 2025-08-13

  • This house prefers the medical conception of mental health over the humanistic conception

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    There are two major conceptions of mental health. The first is the medical conception, emphasising the role of "objective" factors, such as biochemical and genetic risk factors, in mental disorders. The second is the humanistic conception, which emphasises the role of "subjective" factors, such as economic and social conditions and personal relationships.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-09

  • This house opposes the rise of self-diagnosis

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    As a response to an increasing quantity of content surrounding mental health and wellness on social media, “self-diagnosing” is an act in which an individual self-identifies with disorders, often related to mood and cognition such as anxiety, depression, and even more chronic conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

    Hart House Women and Gender Minorities Debating Tournament 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-02

  • This house opposes the medicalization of naturally occurring biological processes in women (e.g., menstruation, menopause) in psychology

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    Medicalization is the process of treating previously non-medical issues as defined medical problems, such as a disease or disorder. Examples of this are Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), which is a mood disorder characterized by more extreme symptoms of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS); Menopause is also increasingly becoming medicalized and treated as a condition.

    Bicol Debate Union Rookies Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-02

  • This house supports Virelia's government assigning superpowers to individuals based on societal needs

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    In the near-future world of Virelia, advances in synthetic genetics and precision biochemistry have made it possible to safely and reliably grant individuals specific superhuman abilities at birth. These powers, such as enhanced strength, higher sensory abilities, or environmental adaptation, are designed to suit particular functions in society (e.g. telepathic coordination for emergency room staff). Currently, a very small number of people are randomly born with powers without government interference. However, thanks to newly developed state technologies, Virelia’s government now is faced with a choice to implement a system of state-assigned superpowers, where powers are given to individuals based on public utility metrics such as societal need, domestic security, and better economic outcomes. Under this new system, Virelia's government has control over the general characteristics of superpowers, as well as the quantity of superpowers allocated to individuals.

    Hart House Women and Gender Minorities Debating Tournament 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-02

  • This house would prefer to be born with HSAM

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    Hyperthymesia (HSAM) is a rare condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail.

    APIIT ISDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-07-29

  • This house supports the rise of patients self-advocating in medicine

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    Self-advocating encourages patients to make sure their issues are not dismissed by medical professionals. This includes doing your own research, asking for a second opinion, making sure doctors note down denying tests in your medical record, etc

    Ho Chi Minh Debate Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-26

  • This house supports The Creation of PEAD

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    Personal Emotion Altering Device (PEAD) is a chip installed in human brain that can change the emotional response and natural feelings through specific electrical impulses as instructed by the owner.PEAD takes over the natural human endocrine system and becomes the new controlling mechanism for all emotions and feelings experience by the user. Users have conscious awareness that the emotions are artificial due to disjointment with reality but do not emotionally experience them.

    Indo-Pacific Pre-ABP 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that the scientist should use simulation to conduct unregulated medical experiments in the hopes of discovering and creating cures for a host of diseases.

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    For the purpose of this debate, there exists a scientist who has secretly created a perfect simulation of the world, including a number of living beings with the exact same physical, mental, emotional, and other predispositions as humans. As the creator, the scientist knows and can control everything that happens to the beings on that world.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · College Quarterfinals · 2025-07-18

  • This house opposes the trend towards increasing pathologization of mental health in Western liberal democracies

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    Pathologization is to view or to characterize as medically or psychologically abnormal. In the past two decades, the rates at which mental disorders are being labelled as well as diagnosed have been rapidly increasing. New conditions such as Pre-menstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Hoarding Disorder, and Prolonged Grief Disorder are being added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. The percentage of American children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) tripled to 11.4% over the past 10 years, and 50% of adults aged 18-24 report symptoms of anxiety and depression compared to 30% of adults overall.

    Gadjah Mada Eloquentia Pre-NUDC 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-07-13

  • This house, As an average corporate worker, W accept the offer

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    "Severance is a fictional procedure that splits one's memory into two streams of consiousness, essentially becoming two people. It is used by the fictional company Lumos for their corporate employees. Once an employee clocks in, they become their 'work self' , gaining back the memories of their previous work days and losing the memories of their 'personal self'. Vice versa for when they clock out. Lumos has offered you a job offer with a liveable wage only if you undergo the Severance Procedure."

    Curtin Interschool Debate Competition 2025 · Finals-Junior · 2025-07-07

  • That the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) should limit the amount of grant money universities can use for overhead expenses (e.g. administration, utilities) to no more than 15% of research expenses (e.g. researcher salaries, equipment, facilities)

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    Universities receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants typically receive approximately 50% of direct research costs as additional funding to cover overhead expenses such as administration and utilities.

    South China Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-07-06

  • This house would prohibit pharmaceutical companies from donating to universities

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    Pharmaceutical companies often donate to universities to support research projects that align with their interests, potentially leading to new drug discoveries or advancements in medical technology.

    Summer Debate Symposium 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-07-06

  • We, as the Middle-Aged Elephant, will take the Ngọc Ngà medicine.

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    Translate the following text: The "Ngọc Ngà" medicine is a type of pharmaceutical that, when ingested by a patient, will immediately cure them and restore them to their pre-illness state (with no guarantee against recurrence). However, in exchange, the user will lose all memories of the most important person in their life. Middle-aged Elephant is a person in their middle age who has just been diagnosed with a severe illness that has a very low success rate for treatment. Suddenly, the Jade Rabbit appears and offers him the option to take the Ngọc Ngà medicine. However, this decision must be made immediately. The medicine can only be used once, and if he declines, the Jade Rabbit will disappear, and the opportunity will never come again.

    Zoo Pre-NSDC Gathering Cup 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-07-05

  • This House, as Charlie, would opt into the experiment

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    You are Charlie, a 37-year-old man with an IQ of 68, working a menial factory job. Your 'friends' often bully and mock you behind your back because of your low intelligence. You are offered to take part in an experiment that will dramatically increase your intelligence to an IQ of 300+.

    UNSW IV · Round 6 · 2025-07-05