Another important point-- once you get into the conspiracy theory mindset, it&#x27;s not so much that <i>a</i> conspiracy or <i>some</i> conspiracies happen.  There&#x27;s a tendency to believe that <i>all</i> conspiracies are true, even the contradictory ones.<p>Your average conspiracy theorist doesn&#x27;t just believe the NSA is spying on Americans [they better be spying on non-Americans; we taxpayers are paying them a lot of money to do so] or that Putin has had a few guys killed.  Your average conspiracy theorist believes that the Moon landing was faked, JFK was assassinated by a coordinated effort of at least three different groups, there are cures to cancer and all other diseases being kept secret by corporations and&#x2F;or the gov&#x27;ment, Hitler is still alive, aliens have visited the Earth, are living here, and have secret treaties with various states, the UN has real power, various diseases [eg, HIV] are man-made, and various biblical artifacts have been found and kept secret.<p>You rarely find a conspiracy theorist who believes <i>one</i> crazy thing, it&#x27;s almost all or nothing.  It&#x27;s this weird credulity veiled as skepticism for the establishment