> The conspiracy theorists actually make very good points. Like what? Someone else mentioned there's a difference between "conspiracy theory" and "fringe theor

> The conspiracy theorists actually make very good points. Like what? Someone else mentioned there's a difference between "conspiracy theory" and "fringe theory". A fringe theory is one that is outside the mainstream (sometimes radically so) but need not involve a conspiracy; a "conspiracy theory" requires the addendum that "they" are suppressing the truth, "they" are out to get you, and this nebulous "they" is often large enough to be all-encompassing ("all scientists", "the world's governments", etc). Conspiracy theories may still be right ("the US government was hiding the truth about the Vietnam war") but often are simply psychotically wrong. Or maliciously wrong, since there is an industry for conspiracy theories, where it's more important to get your followers than to actually reach any sort of truth. That is, they are often knowingly a scam (like that thing about "alien corpses" that was recently in the news about the Mexican congress). There's a flaw with their non-scientific, non-methodical approach, too. We can reach the "truth" by randomly asserting things, but generally that's not the best way to go about it.