Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most of the explanations we develop about how something happened yesterday have (like history in general) a high bullshit content.
Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick
1995, bullshit, causality, conspiracy-theory, history, prediction