This came up a number of years ago. Dr Sears did answer and the reply was
that he had little control over what was advertised on the site, as a third
party (I think the Web Master or designer, but don't quote me on this) took
care of the advertising and the site was too large to run without adverts.
I bet it may be somewhere in the archives, though.
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