> today's "conspiracy theory" is tomorrow's verified fact. How many tomorrows will we be waiting through to finally verify that the moon landing was faked, tha

> today's "conspiracy theory" is tomorrow's verified fact. How many tomorrows will we be waiting through to finally verify that the moon landing was faked, that the UN has a plan to invade the US using black helicopters, we're all being poisoned/mind-controlled by chemtrails, deepwater horizon was a false flag operation by environmental activists, Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and Sandy Hook was invented and staged by crisis actors? > "conspiracy theory" has always been a term of propaganda and rhetoric "Conspiracy theory" as a label has a substantial meaning. They usually require the existence of hidden powers, thrive on being outside/rhetorically above the mainstream, resist falsification ("the lack of evidence is exactly what we'd expect if powerful people were covering it up!"). The label can be used in bad faith, but so can names for rhetorical fallacies.