Would he have said the same thing about Dr. Salk?
DECEMBER 23: Radio Rabbi Lapin is unhappy with Time magazine’s selection of Dr. Ho, the AIDS researcher largely responsible for the first effective anti-HIV treatment, as Man of the Year, saying “this is so crazy for this guy to be Time’s Man of the Year… He hasn’t accomplished anything yet” – “hasn’t come up with anything decisive or practical”. Lapin then explains how Dr. Ho was selected: “the cancer lobby is not as influential in the media as the homosexuals.