I agree that this sort of "conspiracy theory" is a "hypothesis involving conspriacy" and not "paranoid magical thinking". ie., we are talking about something a

I agree that this sort of "conspiracy theory" is a "hypothesis involving conspriacy" and not "paranoid magical thinking". ie., we are talking about something a small number of people could plausibly do for the sake of covering up known crimes. It doesn't involve god-like levels of planning, forthought, coordination -- and the "theory" expresses nothing implausible about local corruption. I dont think we should downvote contributions that merely suppose covering up known crimes, at this very minor scale. Rather, perhaps, downvotes are owed to the more paranoid "maybe the whole world is a lie" type.