Why is the snake oil topic closed?

The burnin' question is do snake oil salesmen elect their representative or is that position just up for grabs?

The reason that comments have been turned off for the thread in question is it should be obvious related to the challenge initiated in the original posting which was that socalled naysayers who claim snake oil and fraud should prove their case in court and reap the rich rewards they would earn from exposing such a broad conspiracy. They can not prove their claims no matter how loudly they assert their assertions that those who hear such differences as they deem impossible to detect must be somehow intellectually or genetically deficient as is evident to those who read the responses that moderators  deleted in that thread prior to closing it down. This matter should settle for once and for all this tired debate by those advanced minds who come here to instruct the rest of us about such matters as confirmation bias and other nonsense that renders insignificant, flawed, or invalid the listening impressions posted by the users of this forum. I am proud to to be the creator of this thread that has settled this issue so that we need not return to it again.

what a stupid post

Why is the snake oil topic closed?

Because it had no place being in a "Technical Forum" just as this thread.

Both should be in the  Misc Audio forum where anything goes.

Cheers George

@randy-11, thank you so much for summing this up, I concur.