The market makers are doing the NSS thing under the guise of "making a market".
You know, just making sure that Joe Schmuck can buy 105 shares of XYZQ without delay.
I would bet that if LEHMQ traded strictly on ECN, without market maker manipulation, it would be over a dollar by now.
Step aside son, you're blockin' the MOMO! ... .. Disproving absence of evidence should be easy, show the evidence of.