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  • This house would donate their brain

    Infoslide

    The year is 2500, and surgeons have figured out how to transplant brains. They can be transplanted from someone who dies of body-related causes to someone who dies of brain-related causes. Consciousness is transferred when a brain is transplanted. For example, if your brain is transplanted, you would wake up in someone else’s body

    Mcmaster High Schools 2025 · Junior Final · 2025-03-22

  • This House Opposes the rise of social media influencers in the medical industry

    Infoslide

    An influencer is a person who is able to generate interest in something (such as a consumer product) by posting about it on social media.

    WFL Junior World Schools Debate 2025 · Querter Finals · 2025-03-22

  • This house would press the button

    Infoslide

    A button has been created that would allow all people existing presently and henceforth to live forever, even through injury and sickness, until they actively wish to cease living. Once pressed, the effects cannot be reversed.

    NTU DC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-03-22

  • This house opposes the rise of "anti aging technology" firms

    Infoslide

    Anti-aging technology refers to scientific advancements, medical treatments, and biotechnological innovations designed to slow, prevent, or reverse the aging process at a biological, cellular, or cosmetic level. This includes interventions that target age-related diseases, improve skin health, and enhance overall longevity.

    Ashoka University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-03-21

  • This house believes that it is in the interests of the UFC to implement a maximum age limit of 37 on their athletes

    Infoslide

    The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the world’s leading mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, known for hosting high-level fights across various weight classes. There has been a recent rise in the number of fighters above the age of 37.

    Ashoka University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-03-21

  • This House Prefers a world where drug regulatory bodies (e.g. FDA, EMA, MHRA) only evaluate whether pharmaceuticals (e.g. treatments, medicines, vaccines) are safe, but not whether they are effective

    Vitark 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-03-21

  • This house as a parent in a marginalised community would administer compound V to their eldest child.

    Infoslide

    Compound V is a pharmaceutical product that alters genes to yield superhuman abilities. These abilities vary widely from increased speed, strength and physical durability to invisibility, and superhuman intelligence etc. The safety profile of compound V has not been confirmed, with severe side effects such as permanent disability and death being observed in a minority of drug candidates.

    Summer Wars 3.0: The Battle of Supremacy · Round 4 · 2025-03-20

  • This house regrets modern medicine's prioritization of curative care over pallative care for patients with severe illnesses (e.g. extending lifespan vs. quality of life)

    Infoslide

    Palliative care is medical treatement that helps people with serious illnesses be more comfortable. It focuses on relieving pain, stress, and other symptoms with the goal is to improve quality of life for the patient and their family. Curative care is medical tratement aimed at curing illnesses and diseases. Often curative care treatements cause pain, stress and discomfort in patients.

    Junior UBC Spring HST 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-03-19

  • This house prefers a world where Mononoke is the cause of illness and disease

    Infoslide

    Mononoke is a vengeful spirit that causes/worsens illness in humans. There are various types of Mononoke, such as Ikiryo (the ghost of the living), Shiryo (the ghost of the dead), and Yo-Kai (supernatural monsters), among others. For example, Ikiryo is created by the grudges of the living, and by clinging to the object of their resentment, it causes/worsens the victim's disease. While you can defeat weaker Mononoke with your spiritual power accumulated through religious good deeds, serious diseases should be treated by a monk who has undergone rigorous training and prays for the patient's recovery.

    Asian Bridge 2025 · ラウンド4 · 2025-03-15

  • This house believes that the U.S. should completely ban animal testing

    Infoslide

    Traditional U.S. law required animal testing, such as on rats, dogs, and monkeys, before new drugs could be used in human clinical trials. In 2020, President Biden signed a new law that permits the use of alternative testing methods. Pharmaceutical companies can now choose to avoid animal testing when developing new drugs and still receive certification by using advanced techniques, which have been rapidly developed recently, such as computer modeling and organ chips.

    Asian Bridge 2025 · ラウンド3 · 2025-03-15

  • This House would require medical centers to document and publish the findings from their morbidity and mortality conferences

    Infoslide

    Healthcare professionals from the same medical centers hold morbidity and mortality conferences ("M&Ms") on a weekly to monthly basis. These conferences review all deaths, near-death cases, and lasting injuries at the center since the preceding M&M. They may also accept requests to examine other cases involving medical harm. Conference members are assigned cases and tasked with analyzing whether the outcome resulted from physician oversight, malpractice, or other underlying circumstances related to patient care. Afterward, members present and discuss their findings with the broader conference. The conference then determines whether the case reflects a failure in patient care and, if so, attempts to identify the source of the failure and ethical implications. Currently, M&Ms are strictly confidential, and their insights are only available within the institution conducting them.

    McGill IV 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-03-14

  • This House Supports the legalisation of assisted dying in England and Wales

    Infoslide

    The House of Commons is currently debating a proposed law to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. If passed, assisted dying would be available to any patient over the age of 18 who is terminally ill (i.e., expected to die within six months). Assisted dying is currently illegal everywhere in the UK, with a punishment of up to 14 years in prison.

    LSE Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-03-08

  • This house prefers a world where this technology exists.

    Infoslide

    There is a technology that allows mental illnesses and disorders to be physically visible in humans. Different mental illnesses will result in different physical manifestations and the degree of harm it does to the individual will similarly be reflected in the degree of physical deformity/prominence (more harm leads to greater physical manifestations). Once used, this technology cannot be reversed.

    JUSTICE 1.0 · Round 4 · 2025-03-07

  • The parliament believes that, instead of increasing funding for small-scale primary healthcare clinics in developing economies, priority should be given to expanding subsidies for medical specialization facilities, infrastructure, and specialists (such as cardiology, neurology, etc.).

    RDS Ramadan Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-02-20