Ok, how about a sci.audiophile and alt.audiophile then? 

Or take the mods to the DIY forum.

Personally I want to understand what is superstition and what is
reproducible. 

I think the response on anti-aging creams is self-evident. If it claims
efficacy I want to know it really works, not just is claimed to work so
as to grab money. People have been buying ineffective medicines, creams
and lotions for thousands of years. 

By the way, did you ever see B.F. Skinner's paper on "superstitious"
pigeons? Basically the experiment was to provide operant conditioning
without regard to the pigeon behaviour. The pigeons thus became
"superstitious" - they learned to repeat whateever behaviour they were
doing at the time of the reward (food) even though it had no actual
connection to the behaviour. Personally I think there is a lesson for
the audiophile community there, in my opinion, of course.


-- 
Eric Carroll

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