Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice
I've noticed people treat conspiracy theories with the same level of validity or non-validity regardless of the facts or details.<p>Things like flat earth conspiracies have now inexplicably been lumped into the likes of those who believe in things like.<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...</a><p>Or just question in general the motivation behind the decisions made by those in charge.<p>There are some very obviously dumb conspiracies that have no basis in reality, there are some possibly far out there conspiracies that could have some merit and then there's conspiracies that seemed ridiculous but actually turned out to be true.<p>The world is not black and white...it's very grey.<p>Again, I find it odd these things tend to all be labeled under one giant 'conspiracy theory' label. Much like any theories, some are possibly valid, others very obviously not.<p>Categorizing these things together as has been done in recent years makes no sense.