Hey Old Dog, welcome to PheroTruth!
I don't know how I missed this thread when you first posted.
Yes, pherotalk became a much different place after you left. That was pretty much the beginning of the end of their reign, and members started leaving in droves. In fact, Jasmine called me and spent 3 hours talking my ear off about the issue that caused you to leave and about CPS trying to take her kids away. The only problem was that what she was telling me made no sense, and I knew it couldn't be true. I left and started this forum not much after that, in August of 09.
As to why they've become so militant, I think the answer is that before copulingate ( yes, that's become what we refer to it as

) people rarely questioned anything they said or did, but after it was exposed that they'd been lying to everyone, they lost that luxury.
Not much before copulingate, members also started realizing that they did infact censor posts and called them on it. In defense, they removed the non censored tagline from the forum and changed it to read "This is the only website in the world where you are allowed to honestly discuss human pheromones and related topics with real pheromone users. No "snake oil salesmen" allowed!"
Around the same time, people started waking up and coming to the conclusion that Jasmine and Michael may not be the loving, caring people that they claimed to be. Many also started noticing that the claim of being a research forum and not profiting or actually losing money on the sales of the experimentals and putatives probably wasn't true either. After all, why didn't anything ever move up the chain from an experimental mix to a pre-release, then to a consumer item?
I also started noticing, and assume others did as well, that anytime a sticky issue came up on the forum or they were confronted on something they didn't want to address, Jasmine or Michael would post a thread announcing some new personal tragedy in their life. Those 2 have to be either the 2 least lucky people in the world, or make up lies to misdirect people away from issues they don't want to address and gain sympathy.
And that happens tp this day! Even now there's a recent thread over there were a couple of our members called them out on a few issues and ther response has been to claim that they've been threatened, attacked and fear the safety of their chemist. In the process they also told a number of flat out lies! Of course they do have a few fan boys that jumped to their defense and proved that their still capable of making some prople drink their coolaid.
Then there was the issue with Diane. Since they could no longer get copulins from Stone Labs they were going to work with Diane to help her synthesize and produce a viable alternative source. But, things went sideways with her too and they ended up banning her.
To be fair on that account though, she was also a member here for a short time, and we ended up banning her too, because she wouldn't stop attacking Tisha or Androtics, and was pretty much using the forum as her own personal advertising platform for Paradise 7. BTW, we actually supported her in starting her company and allowed her to sell her first products through this forum.
So, that's basically waht happened with the other PT. It's of no concern anymore to most of us here, and we've created a cozy little retreat away from all the smoke and mirrors. And, as you peruse through threads I think you'll find that our members are far more intelligent, scientific, and explorative than the average member over there, and rival the brightest they ever did have.
I'll respond to the PM you sent me too, and share some other information too.