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Vote For GA resolution Repeal: "On Scientific Cooperation"
Resolution Analysis
Overview
This resolution seeks to repeal GAR#322, "On Scientific Cooperation" due a lack of precise wording in clauses 1(a) and 1(b) that tasks the World Assembly Scientific Programme (WASP) with carrying out the untenable task of cataloging any and all data "relevant to it's mandate", its failure to account for and thus prevent malicious member states from misrepresenting scientific data in contrary to established scientific consensus, the lack of a mechanism for WASP to propagate new ideas and critique established scientific consensus, and its lacking of any mandate for member states to adhere to.
Recommendation
We find that the faults presented by the author are accurate and quite serious. The imprecise language used in clauses 1(a) and 1(b) utterly ruin WASP's potential and resources by forcing it to catalog all sorts of useless, junk data. Of particular concern is the cataloging of data associated with pseudoscientific endeavors. Such cataloging provides legitimacy to such data, something that we consider to be particularly dangerous given the well-documented damage that scientific misinformation has caused across numerous nations. GAR#322's ineffectiveness in fighting misinformation is all the more accentuated by it failing to tackle the potential for member states to censor data cataloged by WASP. The overall nonbinding nature of the resolution is yet another fault that justifies this repeal.
For the above reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote For the General Assembly Resolution at vote, Repeal: "On Scientific Cooperation".
