As you correctly pointed out in your first sentence, I did not accuse you of making a moral judgment or equivalence; I merely said that when there are multiple

As you correctly pointed out in your first sentence, I did not accuse you of making a moral judgment or equivalence; I merely said that when there are multiple possible definitions of a word, the most common of which holding normative connotation, it is important to be precise about which meaning we give or do not give to the word. In other words, my unintentionally oblique answer was that "it depends on the definition we use". As for the rest, under the definition of propaganda you specified in your earlier comment, I think we're essentially on the same page. (And here I make a very generous interpretation of your usage of "doctrine" and "germ theory of disease", because I don't think "doctrine" was the best word.)