You are probably getting down votes for insinuating a conspiracy that the admins/moderators are doing this. If it was deleted you'd see [dead] next to the title. I would assume a more benign reason: other HN readers are flagging it.

[dead] doesn't indicate admin action either, at least not directly. It happens when either (a) a lot of users flagged the submission; (b) the site is banned; (c) the submitter is banned.

Thanks for the clarification and info Dan.

This site has shown up repeatedly on HN, and always been dismissed due to bad science. Maybe this article is different, but who's going to bother wasting their time to find out?

Alt-right gonna keep shoveling billionaire propaganda and/or InfoWars/Unabomber beliefs onto every and any memetic channel, because shouting lies loud/often enough is sadly rewarded by changing sentiment in low-fact environments. (Doesn't really work so well on HN because of pervasive motivation for fact-challenging and argumentativeness.)

Enough people believe "where there's smoke, there's fire", that if you keep pumping smoke over and over, some of them will eventually assume that there's a fire.

Users flagged it. Admins didn't touch it.

Users were right to flag it, since this is a classic flamewar topic, and discussions of those tend to be predictable, ideological, and angry—none of which gratifies intellectual curiosity, which is what this site is for.