> The most unfortunate thing about conspiracy theorists is that they can occasionally turn out to be right. Well, them being correct from time to time doesn't

> The most unfortunate thing about conspiracy theorists is that they can occasionally turn out to be right. Well, them being correct from time to time doesn't justify the method they use (pure logic ignoring empirical evidence). What I call "conspiracy theory" is an unproven claim, or something for which there is contradictory evidence. Once proven, it's simply a "conspiracy", and there is nothing wrong with belief in existence of (proven) conspiracies.