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Scientific Freedom Guarantee
A resolution to improve worldwide human sapient and civil rights.

Category: Civil Rights

Strength: Significant

Proposed by: Tinhampton

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Reaffirming that the defence of scientific freedom has always been an international priority, it being the second topic ever to have been legislated for by this body's predecessor, and

Believing that the right of individuals to engage in, learn and teach about, and generally take advantage of scientific and mathematical innovation without fear of prosecution should be guaranteed (see also GA#234 "Freedom to Read and Learn"), and

Noting that only as a result of this body's recent repeal of GA#88 "WA Numeration and Units Act" can such guarantees truly be ensured...

The General Assembly hereby:

1. defines, for the purpose of this resolution, an activity relating to "science" as one relating to any observations regarding that which occurs in nature or mathematics, provided that such observations have subsequently undergone peer review or been definitively proven,
2. requires that - subject to Article c - no natural person inhabiting in a member state, nor any legal person operating in a member state, nor any diplomat representing a member state in any capacity or their family members, be prevented from developing, practising, engaging in, benefiting from, learning about, or helping others learn about:
   
   1. any form or branch of pure science, isolated from any practical application, nor
   2. any practical applications of any form or branch of science (including applications relating to the measurement of objects),
3. forbids member states from imposing restrictions on the freedoms cited in Article b, except only to:
   
   1. provide for those involved in science-related research and development (R&D) to disclose any corporate relationships they have that could affect their impartiality (such as requiring researchers of diabetes and obesity to disclose their relationship with soft drink bottlers), where prior and standing international law does not already reserve to member states or forbid the imposition of such disclosures in any such R&D,
   2. ensure that those wishing to formally teach science in schools be properly qualified to do so,
   3. require compliance by any entity within their jurisdiction with prior and standing international law (including future international law on intellectual property, preventing the perpetuation of war crimes and crimes against humanity),
   4. prevent the disclosure of information that would put a legal or natural person's private information at risk if published, or to
   5. protect any person from wilful death or serious injury,
4. insists, nonetheless, that all educational establishments in member states refrain from formally teaching any theory that has not yet undergone peer review but would otherwise be defined as science under Article a,
5. mandates that member states, their agents and their healthcare systems not pass off as scientific that which cannot be defined as science under Article a (or as unscientific that which can be so defined as science), and
6. clarifies that:
   
   1. Article b(ii) does not require any member state, nor any person offering goods and services in any member state, to accept any currency not issued by that member state or bartering tools as legal tender,
   2. Article c(v) does not pre-empt future international regulation or deregulation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, of small arms, or of recreational drugs, and that
   3. this resolution does not affect or require the institution of any set of internationally-recognised measurements; these should be addressed by future legislation.

Ardiveds wrote:OOC: b.ii seems to encompass a lot of stuff, including stuff like making bombs, firearms and illicit drugs. Am I not seeing something?