Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?

Selected tools of the determined huckster:

1) Claim you're misunderstood

2) Claim there's an agenda against you

3) Claim there's an agenda against "new knowledge" or "poorly understood phenomena"

4) Claim outside forces would "rip you off" if given the chance

5) Draw incorrect parallels between what you do and historical examples where the advancement of science was inhibited by entrenched interests

6) Claim that your skeptics "are not ready" for your brand of knowledge, but will one day "see the light"

7) Utilize diversionary tactics and vague language to try and disguise the faulty logic of your false sylogisms, false premises, nonsensical semantics, non-sequitors, and general resort to unproven, "faith-based" assertions

8) Utilize anecdotal testimony to try and disguise your lack of demonstrable evidence

9) Selectively ignore the weight of more rigorous, as well as anecdotal, evidence running counter to your claims

10) Play to your audience's ignorance, desires and fears

11) Hope they don't wise up by "following the money"

12) And when all else fails, resort to rendering your inferences non-disprovable by making your specific claims "secret" (citing #'s 1-6 as reasons why)

audioaril! you gotta be careful mixing Floyd with uncle cidney. I spent way too much time trippin to Animals in the 70's and became a lifelong cynic as a result..but what a way to get there.

<> Always refer to unorthodox statements as "claims," which are "touted," and to your own assertions as "facts," which are "stated."

Here's a gem from the Daniel Drasin piece Geoff Kait linked to above.

I am surprised that he didn't mention the tactic of using an adjective such as "anecdotal" in front of the word testimony in order to trivialize the level of satisfaction or veracity expressed in those testimonies. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.

Zaikesman, good one!