http://www.fiar.us/

FIAR, a non-profit organization, sponsors and stimulates interest in
clinical trials of herbal and nutritional treatments for people with
HIV, AIDS and/or chronic viral hepatitis. The goal is to show whether
or not these treatments can lessen symptoms, delay the need for
Western drugs or reduce side effects. Some studies are carried out in
developing nations where indigenous treatments are used and
antiretroviral drugs (ARV) are largely unavailable. FIAR also seeks to
bring ARV, self-empowering information and prevention to such
under-served areas.

FIAR studies dietary supplements and other biologic agents. Dietary
supplements are defined by the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act
(DSHEA) and include vitamins, minerals, amino acids, thousands of
different botanicals ("herbs"), protein powders, hormones, etc. Other
modalities, such as massage, Reiki, spiritual practices may be
addressed in the future as FIAR grows and develops.

It's time that people had better information to help guide treatment
choices! Many studies show that a high percentage of people living
with HIV/AIDS already use many of these interventions. How do they
work? Can they help to manage side effects of drug therapy? Can they
slow the rate of progression? Can they lengthen the time on a
Structured Treatment Interruption? FIAR, working with the HIV/AIDS and
Hepatitis communities, clinics, hospitals, practitioners and
organizations around the world designs, funds and implements clinical
studies to answer some of these questions and thus help people in
making better-informed treatment decisions. Negative results mean
people will save money and time. Positive results may encourage
coverage under insurance (like ADAP) for greater access and reduced
burden of cost on our healthcare systems.

FIAR's first duty is to participants in such studies and adheres to
the highest standards in informed consent, patient protection and
careful monitoring. FIAR will of course undertake studies using
rigorous methodology.

FIAR's currently has two NIH grants to conduct clinical studies. One
is a study of milk thistle among people with HIV and hepatitis C. The
second is a two-year planning grant working with Gandeepam in South
India to evaluate their treatments for HIV. A pilot study of Chinese
medicine in the US is evaluating a formulation for people not using
ARV. For more information on FIAR's current and proposed studies,
click here.

To avoid conflicts of interest, FIAR does not solicit funds
from pharmaceutical or nutriceutical companies.

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:49:15 GMT, GMCarter <fiar@verizon.net> wrote:

FIAR is Frod's International AIDS Research, and if you google
"Frod" and "GMCarter", you will discover that this is actually
a joke, perhaps the product of a truly disturbed bipolar
passive-aggressive with megalomaniacal features and OCD.

A joke that isn't as funny as much as it is a sad commentary
about one sick puppy who somehow slipped through the
compassionate fingers of the psychiatric profession.

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:22:11 -0400, AZT Murder <redrumtza@alltel.net>
wrote:

No, it is not, despite your libelous misrepresentations here.

It is the Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research.

Of course, the truth is irrelevant to you. You are only interested in
your vicious obsession.

Best of luck finding healing. But after all these years, I think you
will die with all that bitterness on your lips and the ugliness in
your soul. That's your karma, dear--and your choice.

George M. Carter

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:11:21 GMT, GMCarter <fiar@verizon.net> wrote:

Gee, Conman, it would seem that any casual search of Google for
the words "frod" and "gmcarter" would illustrate YOUR
vicious obsession that covers nearly a decade (indeed,
a lifetime of work in terms of internet years)!

Is it ANY wonder why you would name your dubious
Welfare Queen megalomaniacal "save the world" organization
after your favorite mantra, "FROD"?

FIAR = Frod's International AIDS Research

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:12:56 -0400, AZT Murder <redrumtza@alltel.net>
wrote:

snip
Darling, I merely respond to your posts. Doesn't that make you happy?
At least someone in the world does! Most folks just ignore you.

But look at it: the vast majority of your posts--and those of the past
few months--are almost exclusively about me or FIAR.

So....who is the obsessed one?

Well--we both are. Except my obsession is to understand how best to
fight HIV/AIDS. In terms of prevention and treatment. Which is why
FIAR was formed.

By contrast--your obsession seems to be a childish need for attention
through squealing and spewing vitriol. Kinda sad, don't you think?

What does it do for you? Aside from making you simmer in a constant,
bitter rage? Does it allow you to vent and let it out? Or merely to
wallow in it?

George M. Carter

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:28:18 GMT, GMCarter <fiar@verizon.net> wrote:

You can't give yourself enough credit, Conman. YOU created FROD
simply because Frod is You.

And then came Paypal...

A lofty obsession, driven by a condom-frenzied money glutton... LOL!

Why didn't you simply find a rich widow to marry and kill off, just
like any other self-respecting faggot?

Why do you stoop to Welfare Queen status among the
Paypal crowd?

Frod! Have you NO self-respect?

Mail:
Frod's International AIDS Research (FIAR)
Attn: George M. Carter, Director
62 Sterling Place, Suite 2
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Telephone: 718-622-0212

From the FIAR website:

" FIAR will draw up legal agreements prior to commencing studies to
address issues related to the commercialization or patenting (if
necessary and appropriate) that address who and to what degree the
beneficiaries shall be. FIAR will seek, in those agreements, to
assure that Fair Trade practices are adopted whenever local use of
botanicals is initiated. FIAR recognizes that all too often,
international interests are at the expense of local populations.
However, local communities are developing new ways to help their
local economy in ways that alleviate poverty. One example is the
honey producers and coffee growers of Mexico (the link is but one of
many sites on the issue). To the extent such economic systems may be
possible in areas where botanicals are harvested for use in clinical
studies (e.g., African nations, central and South America, India,
Nepal, Thailand), FIAR will seek to establish at the outset
agreements with partners that any commercial advantage that may
arise from positive study results will accrue to local populations."

A beautiful clinical example of megalomania (the seeking of
international legal agreements, setting world trade policy,
alleviating world poverty and the planning of remuneration for herbal
cures which haven't come about).

I think Quackwatch would love to know if Carter is REALLY involved in
NIH studies and clinical trials, as he so claims on his website.


http://www.aidsinfonyc.org/fiar/contact.html

FIAR: Frod's International AIDS Research contact information

Please consider making a donation!

Your donation can be made easy and secure through Paypal. Click
above to go to your existing Paypal account and send your
donation now. If you are new to Paypal, click below to create a
new account through your email address and send and receive
funds securely anywhere, anytime! Visa, Mastercard, Discover,
American Express, debit card or checking transfers
are all accepted. Upon completion, a receipt will be sent to
your email address.

FIAR also welcomes donations by cheque or money order made out
to FIAR - as well as your thoughts, letters, suggestions and
ideas for clinical studies. FIAR may be reached in the
following ways:

Mail:
Frod's International AIDS Research (FIAR)
Attn: George M. Carter, Director
62 Sterling Place, Suite 2
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Telephone: 718-622-0212

To avoid conflicts of interest, FIAR does not solicit funds
from pharmaceutical or nutriceutical companies.

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote...
But does it ACCEPT funds offered by those companies? I don't
even know what FIAR is nor do I care.

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:14:18 GMT, "Satan" <satan@hell.com> wrote:

No.

Then why do you ask?

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:36:37 GMT, GMCarter <fiar@verizon.net> wrote:

Since George "Conman" Carter refuses to disclose the
source of his money (e.g. "donations" to his non-profit FIAR),
and given his sordid history here and elsewhere, we must
assume that the truth is other than what he proclaims.

Perhaps we will soon know the truth ... stay tuned.

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:20:28 GMT, GMCarter <fiar@verizon.net> wrote:

Carter won't disclose his funding sources.

No matter, a little detective work seems to have pointed us in
the right direction. Stay tuned...

George "Conman" Carter's FIAR web site:

Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR)
Attn: George M. Carter, Director
62 Sterling Place, Suite 2
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Telephone: 718-622-0212

http://www.aidsinfonyc.org/fiar/contact.html

FIAR: Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research contact information

Please consider making a donation!

Your donation can be made easy and secure through Paypal. Click
above to go to your existing Paypal account and send your
donation now. If you are new to Paypal, click below to create a
new account through your email address and send and receive
funds securely anywhere, anytime! Visa, Mastercard, Discover,
American Express, debit card or checking transfers
are all accepted. Upon completion, a receipt will be sent to
your email address.

FIAR also welcomes donations by cheque or money order made out
to FIAR - as well as your thoughts, letters, suggestions and
ideas for clinical studies. FIAR may be reached in the
following ways:

Mail:
Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR)
Attn: George M. Carter, Director
62 Sterling Place, Suite 2
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Telephone: 718-622-0212

"AZT Murder" <redrumtza@alltel.net> wrote...
The site makes reference to it being a "501(c)(3) not-for profit"
so what is the law regarding donors' names being part of the
public record?

Satan wrote:

Well, Diablo ol' chap... 501(c)(3)s usually don't have to disclose their
donors' names to the public, in fact, donors may request total anonymity
so that their names/addresses are not sold/given to other nonprofits.
Major donors' names are given to the IRS, but that's not public record.

Some donors' names *may* appear on what's called a Form 990, which is a
public record. You can look up FIAR on http://www.guidestar.org, as you
can any nonprofit you're interested in.

B/

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:00:05 -0700, Brian Mailman
<bmailman@sfo.invalid> wrote:

George M. Carter professes to be here to help and inform. He
claims to help AIDS victims through his "nonprofit" organization.
Yet he suddenly becomes silent when he is asked to account for
the funds that donors generously provide to him.

This is the Martin Delaney / Project Inform model of AIDS
nonprofit anti-accountability. And, by the way, Delaney is on FIAR's
Board of Directors.

It should be no surprise that Delaney and Carter are both
HIV-negative.

"AZT Murder" <redrumtza@alltel.net> wrote...
I'm inclined to agree with you, AZT Murder. For over 20 years I've
watched a megabillion dollar industry spring up around HIV/AIDS.
Aside from the cost of the expensive HIV drugs, it seems that much
if not most of the money is going for useless things like "education"
and "counselors" and a whole lot of other stuff that has nothing to
do with medical treatment. I'm certain a lot of the money raised
by private "non-profit" organizations like GMCarter's goes to lobby
the government for more public spending on HIV, it does not go to
combat HIV directly, and in the process the directors and employees
of such "non-profit" organizations DO make a profit in terms of
their salaries. It is rather easy to take any profitable enterprise
and make it "non-profit" simply by increasing salaries until the
difference between revenues and expenses drops to zero.

Since I'm Satan this week, here's a quote about psychic vampires by
the founder of the Church of Satan:

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"Every fund raising organization, be it a charitable foundation,
community council, religious or fraternal association, etc.,
carefully selects a person who is adept at making others feel
guilty for its chairman or coordinator. It is the job of this
chairman to intimidate us into opening first our hearts, and
then our wallets, to the recipients of their 'good will,' never
mentioning that, in many cases, THEIR time is not unselfishly
donated, but that they are drawing a fat salary for their 'noble
deeds.' They are masters at playing upon the sympathy and
consideration of responsible people."
-- Anton LaVey; "The Satanic Bible"
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:01:06 -0400, AZT Murder <redrumtza@alltel.net>
wrote:


Not at all. You accused me of being a liar in another post. So why
bother?

I've stated it quite specifically: FIAR does not and has not received
funding from pharma or nutriceutical companies.

Our funding has been through private donations (individuals) for the
most part. And it has been minimal. So no, dear, there's no smoking
gun here--or anywhere.

You will no doubt continue to make your ridiculous accusations,
misrepresent the organization's name, and otherwise continue to be a
vicious person--a state of mind and being you apparently enjoy living
with!

So knock yourself out.

George M. Carter

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:25:52 GMT, "Satan" <satan@hell.com> wrote:

Beautiful ...

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:31:45 GMT, GMCarter <fiar@verizon.net> wrote:

So you bother to remain silent.

Nothing said above about pharma - and you know it, Mr. Carter.

How much is "minimal" to you?

And given your repeated habit of dodging the question,
how can we be sure that "individuals" aren't corporate
"individuals"?

I will no doubt continue to delve into yet another outrageous
misdirection of resources to yet another trivial pursuit, at best.

Nothing misrepresented in your "Frod" organization that you
haven't misrepresented.

In dealing with an HIV-negative sycophant like Carter, being
called "vicious" is a true measure of success!

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:20:55 -0400, AZT Murder <redrumtza@alltel.net>
wrote:
snip
Yet another lie.

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:23:34 GMT, GMCarter <fiar@verizon.net> wrote:

So Carter snips the statement out in another classic Carter lie.