One of the things that the Conservative Propaganda Machine has done is take any semblance of credibility out of the word “conspiracy.” As soon as a responsible person hears the word conspiracy, they start picturing tin foil hats, and stop listening.

But real conspiracies do happen all the time, and are happening now, and the Dark Side is camoflaging them by surrounding them with whack-job stuff to thow us off the scent.

The difference is Ctitical-Thinking Skills. Is the theory a bunch of unrelated stuff with imagined connections between them, or are they truly connected by evidence with sources? The first is a Theory, and second is a true conspiracy.