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Anderson was Time magazine's runner-up for Man of the Year in 1995. He has been called the "father of gene therapy" for his work on a promising but controversial experimental medical treatment that involves injecting healthy genes into sick patients.

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Actually, gene therapy has never really panned out very well as a cure for much of anything. It was really hyped at the time. There are a few (very few) short term improvements with it for single gene diseases, but nothing much that seems to last very long. The hype reminds of the embryonic stem cell hype today.