Who here handles the mod selection?

It’s an interesting point to raise, mostly because the moderators overseeing the "Natural Sciences" section—as well as those running the "Advanced Users" IT subforums—seem to have absolutely zero clue about the actual subject matter they’re supposed to be policing.
Are we looking at some kind of nepotism situation here? A few nephews or cousins getting handed out titles just for the hell of it? What’s the real story behind this setup?

How many people in the natural sciences have been unfairly banned?
Some of them were targeted simply because they dared to ask a question that the moderator didn't have an answer to.
And how many posts have been scrubbed from existence just because they contradicted a moderator's personal beliefs, even when the facts were right there?
So, what I'm hearing is that if a moderator lacks the knowledge, they just delete the truth and ban the person!?!?

And what does that Sauron guy have to do with any of this? The man doesn't know the first thing about computing—I mean, his entire technical existence seems limited to Solaris—so why on earth does he think he has the authority to spout nonsense and then just scrub his own stupid posts from the board?