Dismissing ideas, particularly obviously non-wacky ideas, as "conspiracy theory" is basically censorship. It is a framing of things as "this is not debatable by

Dismissing ideas, particularly obviously non-wacky ideas, as "conspiracy theory" is basically censorship. It is a framing of things as "this is not debatable by polite society, so I'm going to mark it thusly and hope you forget about it."