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Bill: Free Science Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secular Humanist Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2090
Description[?]:
| We need to remove useless restrictions and allow our scientists to learn more about life, universe and everything. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of animals in cosmetics research.
Old value:: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Current: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Proposed: The use of animals to test cosmetic products is unregulated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The use of animals in medical research.
Old value:: Animal research projects must apply for a license and submit to regulation.
Current: Animal research projects must apply for a license and submit to regulation.
Proposed: There are no restrictions on the use of animals for research.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:43:41, August 02, 2005 CET | From | Secular Humanist Party | To | Debating the Free Science Act |
| Message | I'd like some feedback in the next few (game) months in order to vote before going on holiday. |
| Date | 18:44:54, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Kanjor Free Party | To | Debating the Free Science Act |
| Message | May I ask the purpose of this bill, and could this not easily be abused? |
| Date | 21:26:49, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Secular Humanist Party | To | Debating the Free Science Act |
| Message | Experimenting on animals is the only way to develop new drugs, to learn more about life and to test toxicity. As, in my opinion, animals are less worthy than men, if experimenting on animals can provide benefits for us it must be done. Removing restrictions will speed up our researchers and, possibily, attract scientists from other contries with a stricter legislation. Abused? How? (sorry for closing the debate too early, but I'm going on holiday for 4 years and I wanted to vote on my bills) |
| Date | 23:18:48, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Kanjor Free Party | To | Debating the Free Science Act |
| Message | With all due respect, I'm going to have to vote no on this bill. While I agree that there should be proper experimentation on new drugs, but this must be regulated to prevent abuse. You ask how there can be abuse, well, recently there was a local news article about a group of scientists who did multiple experiments on hundreds of dogs simply to watch to see if they died or not. This, in my opinion, is abuse. The human race should not simply kill animals because they can. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 34 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 102 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 304 |
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