NationStates Jolt Archive


Proposal: Ethical Scientific Practice

Elletania
07-05-2006, 04:36
After more feedback has been had and the proposal has been re-written again, I have submitted the proposal towards the UN delagation. The proposal read as follows:

Ethical Scientific Practice
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant

Description: COMMENDING Resolution #2, Scientific Freedom, for the attempt at expanding the trade and freedom of the scientific community

ALSO COMMENDING Resolution #153, Repeal Scientific Freedom, for its concern about the potential abuse that Resolution #2 did not address

DEFINES an experiment as: A test under controlled conditions that is made to demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried

CONCERNED that there are many scientific experiments that could be considered unethical or otherwise cruel in their experimentation, these could include, but are not limited to: unlawful physical treatment of human (sapien) beings, psychologically damaging experiments, torturous electrical usages, drug testing that knowingly harms patients, etc. without the proper consent of the individuals involved

NOTING the need for some potentially harmful experiment in which animals, known not to be sapien, may be substituted in place of human (sapien) experimentees, these experiments include but are not limited to: the testing of industrial/dietary chemicals, radiation studies, etc.

NOTING that the unlawful treatment of 'non-sapien substitutes' is inevitable with some experiments

MANDATING that the human (sapien) body and mind will not be knowingly put at risk in the name of science, unless proper consent of those involved in experiment is given

MANDATING that in the case of human (sapien) experimentation that all individual in and associated with the experiment consent to the regulations of their own government and the UN

MANDATING that those in and associated with the experiment sign contracts of consent, in that if complications, previously unknown to occur, do occur by certain agents of the experiment, that the scientific organization, government, members involved, drug company, or any other not be held responsible.

MANDATING that sapien experimentees be kept in sanitary, humane environments while in the laboratory

MANDATING that non-sapien experimentees be kept in sanitary, humane environments while in the laboratory, unless it can to proven in written documentation, reviewed by a scientific board, that the experiment is directly related to the contrary.

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I urge all delegates to give the arguement thought and vote towards the adoption of this proposal as a resolution.