|Some dare call it| A conspiracy is a secret plan to effect some
goal. Its members are known as conspirators. Not everyone
involved in a conspiracy necessarily knows all the details; in
fact, sometimes none do. There have been very famous
conspiracies, like the Gunpowder Plot (unsuccessful), and the
9/11 attack on prominent U.S. landmarks (3/4 successful). There
was also a "conspiracy", in the sense that the details were kept
only among those involved, to get creationism taught in U.S.
public schools as science, by covertly identifying candidates
for school boards to local sympathetic religious groups in order
to turn out a strong vote for them, which achieved success,
followed by embarrassment. When an event occurs which is not
alleged to have been a conspiracy by authorities or
investigators, sometimes a "conspiracy theory", or several, will
develop around it. One classic is the John F. Kennedy
assassination, another, newer one is the aforementioned attack
of 9/11. Another (relatively) recent one is the so-