"Conspiracy theorists" are indeed loons, but it's not because of what they believe it's because of how they arrive at their conclusions. Conspiracy theorists co

"Conspiracy theorists" are indeed loons, but it's not because of what they believe it's because of how they arrive at their conclusions. Conspiracy theorists consistently apply the same basic logical framework on every line of reasoning. It goes a bit like this: "X is the established mainstream view of topic Y, however there are inconsistencies in X or non-intuitive aspects to X, therefore competing theory Z must be true". This is an incredibly erroneous way to reason about anything, and it's why any and every crack-brained theory under the sun (from the moon landing being faked to the pyramids being created by aliens to the "phantom time hypothesis" to the illuminati controlling the world, and so on). We absolutely do not need to entertain these illogical "theories" with no basis in fact whatsoever. We should entertain a reasonable level of skepticism when it comes to accepting the establishment view on anything, but that's no excuse to abandon reason or the necessity of evidence. A "theory" without evidence is just an allegation.