Yellow Brick Award

The Yellow Brick Award will note those in the Biotech and Bioethics research and policy communities who attempt to lead us down a winding, deceptive path, using explosions, smoke and mirrors, pulleys and levers, novel definitions, distraction, projection and destruction. There are usually at least a few wicked witches, projectiles (not necessarily houses), lots of hot air and maybe a few gene-mod flying monkeys and a forest of threatening trees.

When we look behind the curtain, we find that with stem cell research and abortion, we’re just like Dorothy and the gang: we already have what we thought we needed. We just didn’t know how to use it or notice when we did.