Carter actually isn't allowed to "think"... pharma wouldn't stand for
it. Not for one second, as evidenced by Pharma Ilk Carter, Stein,
Canzi, Mailman and others operating from their public relations
internet damage control boiler rooms.

However, Carter's lies are intended to distance himself and his
previous ACT UP co-conspirators from their sordid pasts, when
they were paid to solicit victims for the pharma poison squads.
The only exception to the ACT UP = PHARMA DEATH rule was,
of course, ACT UP San Francisco (see the pharma gang's attacks
on AUSF's Pasquarelli, especially after his death to get
the true flavor of the compassion professed by Carter et al).

Carter says "no, I didn't take pharma money", but the facts
remain otherwise. Unfortunately for Carter, he can't go back
and destroy every copy of POZ Magazine in which his columns
and SPV-30 ads appeared. Would anyone care to guess
which industry funded POZ?

Carter also refuses to disclose his seemingly endless other
financial conflicts of interests involving his Pharma money
and his internet "nutriceutical" schemes (NAC, SPV-30, etc.,
etc.).

Then there were all those drug company-paid trips here and
there; and various other pharma-funded-and-sponsored opportunites
for self-promotion and profit. Some call those "International AIDS
Conferences", but by now we know better, don't we? Carter
and his "friends" were there. Always. And they NEVER paid
their own way. NEVER! The drug companies paid them and
the drug companies even orchestrated their "protests",
(e.g. the parade of actor-protesters demanding their latest
cures in front of the news media - ALL of it was phony).

The term "Quizzling" comes to mind.

And then there was Carter's crowned jewel - Arkopharma France's
SPV-30 and his true one chance to be a hero! Carter admits taking
their money, but now brushes it off as if a pittance. He'll only admit
that much because he was caught in the act ... again.
But Carter lies when he claims that he didn't write
the ads for SPV-30. He did. Carter admits "helping" with the
distribution of this immune system killer, a confession that
Carter refuses to reconcile with all the goodies he received
along the way.

Carter also downplays the deadly nature of the SPV-30 boxwood
extract's high volume of steroidal drug compounds (nearly 70)
which were even classified at the time as good candidates
for cancer therapy. Similar to tamoxifen, they were highly
immunosuppressive, if only by inference understood by even the
most casual observer. Yet there Carter was - making money
by killing those whose HIV-positive tests left them
desperate, lonely and vulnerable to psychopathic predators
of Carter's sad ilk - a seemingly endless stream of
opportunists who, like roaches, scamper off when
light is shed on their handiwork ... and conflicts of interest.

That's why Carter's desperation is so obvious - as evidenced
by his recent "child molester" ploy and the various other smear
campaigns he regularly orchestrates against his tormentors
(anyone with common sense and/or science). That's what
Carter and his co-workers here are paid to do. That's the
job for the Pharma PR boiler rooms who plague Usenet
for the purpose of obscuring the truth that is so embarassing
and risky to their employers. (Hence the demise of sci.med.aids -
the group which was "moderated" by the Pharma PR
boiler rooms ... into oblivion).

redrumtza