10-18-2005, 12:57 PM
Freedom of Science
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Groot Gouda
Description: The NationStates United Nations,
RECALLING the adoption of Resolution #2: Scientific Freedom,
NOTING WITH REGRET the lack of concrete protection this resolution provides for scientists,
ALSO NOTING that this resolution poorly defines science and scientists worthy of protection,
CONSIDERING the advantages of greater scientific freedom, such as economic prosperity, greater insight into how the world works, as well as possible advances in medical science,
ACKNOWLEDGING the value of religion, which however should be clearly separate from science,
1. AFFIRMS the Freedom of Science as a fundamental right across UN member nations,
2. DEFINES science as the system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific methods, i.e. methodically trying to falsify hypotheses based on objective experimenting which can be reproduced,
3. MANDATES that no scientist may be prosecuted for conducting scientific research, publishing scientific research or reading scientific publications, nor unreasonably restricted in any other way,
4. AUTHORIZES individual nations to exempt scientific research from the general UN protection granted in clause 3 that:
a. is acquired through methods that violate human or animal rights according to UN or national legislation;
b. is aimed at warfare or otherwise damaging persons or animals or the environment (except where it is the only way greater damage can be prevented);
c. depends on "divine beings" as explanations for phenomena;
d. contains plagiarized material or material which by contract was not (yet) to be published;
5. EXPRESSES ITS HOPE that through science, the lives of UN citizens will improve in the centuries to come.
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Groot Gouda
Description: The NationStates United Nations,
RECALLING the adoption of Resolution #2: Scientific Freedom,
NOTING WITH REGRET the lack of concrete protection this resolution provides for scientists,
ALSO NOTING that this resolution poorly defines science and scientists worthy of protection,
CONSIDERING the advantages of greater scientific freedom, such as economic prosperity, greater insight into how the world works, as well as possible advances in medical science,
ACKNOWLEDGING the value of religion, which however should be clearly separate from science,
1. AFFIRMS the Freedom of Science as a fundamental right across UN member nations,
2. DEFINES science as the system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific methods, i.e. methodically trying to falsify hypotheses based on objective experimenting which can be reproduced,
3. MANDATES that no scientist may be prosecuted for conducting scientific research, publishing scientific research or reading scientific publications, nor unreasonably restricted in any other way,
4. AUTHORIZES individual nations to exempt scientific research from the general UN protection granted in clause 3 that:
a. is acquired through methods that violate human or animal rights according to UN or national legislation;
b. is aimed at warfare or otherwise damaging persons or animals or the environment (except where it is the only way greater damage can be prevented);
c. depends on "divine beings" as explanations for phenomena;
d. contains plagiarized material or material which by contract was not (yet) to be published;
5. EXPRESSES ITS HOPE that through science, the lives of UN citizens will improve in the centuries to come.