"There's Emerald City! Oh, we're almost there at last! At last! It's beautiful, isn't it? Just like I knew it would be! He really must be a wonderful wizard to live in a city like that!" But as all who've seen The Wizard of Oz know, Dorothy's initial opinion was wrong.
This classic tale for children is instructive, however, especially for those in Congress intent on extending federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) beyond what the Bush administration has done. The funding balloon is inflated with promises of cures for diseases and new organs for replacement that defy research reality.
ESCR: It's Off to See the Wizard
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Oz never did give nothin' to the tin man that he didn't already have.
I'm sorry, this is just very poorly written. It's more like an exercise in Oz trivia than an editorial about ESCs. Fine, use a solid example from Oz to make your point -- I did it myself once and it remains one of my favorite explications. But one example, please, not a dozen. Don't go flipping back and forth between Oz incidents and a dozen morals-to-the-story. That one good point, well argued, is what we're after; not a dozen that all get lost in the shuffle.