AIDS drug ads,? Weathers comments, ?but they certainly do not use models who are using their drugs. That would hardly make for effective advertising.?? ?Another man, who for years has worked on the inside of AIDS research, implores me not to print his name, swearing he will be out of a job immediately if I do. ?Look at the media, that?s where it happens,? he said. ?Look at those earliest pieces about [David] Ho and the cocktails that ran in the Wall Street Journal. They are just pure propaganda, pure drug company puff pieces. And those reporters won the Pulitzer that year for their AIDS reporting. The pharmaceutical industry exerts a huge influence on scientists and journalists.? ??You have to understand that these AIDS journalists have very close relationships with the drug companies, with their PR people. That affects how things get reported. I mean, they fund everything. They fund all the research, first of all. There is almost no such thing as independent research. All clinical trials are paid for by the drug companies.? ?He laughs when I express alarm at this. ?My God are you naive! Everybody ? not just David Ho ? the reporters, the doctors, everybody is part of this system. They?re all part of the same club, and they all play the same game. They all have the same, big egos.? ??And nobody ? certainly not the reporters ? is going to stand up and wave their finger and say, ?This is all a big