Great comment. Thank you for spending your time writing it. A number of things occur to me when I run into articles like this. 1. "Conspiracy theory" is simpl

Great comment. Thank you for spending your time writing it. A number of things occur to me when I run into articles like this. 1. "Conspiracy theory" is simply the study of illusion, which our society is replete with because.. 2. Over-classification and a culture of secrecy by institutional actors who have an "us vs them" mentality who seem so surprised when.. 3. People take offense to being talked to like children who "can't handle the truth" and are automatically classified as "one of the them or the enemy" from which the truth is to be withheld 4. People, not having authoritative sources of information to rely on, then speculate attempting to approximate, extrapolate, and backwards engineer the truth. Sure, they can get it wrong, and sometimes really wrong but really, what else would you expect? 5. Like it or not there is a bell curve, or distribution of intelligence in the population. People gravitate towards different levels of interpretation, and I often see arguments like "you can't argue with stupid" without acknowledging the perfectly rational impulse as defined above and that whatever level of interpretation they're using probably wasn't meant for them.