Ideas that aren’t on the insane end of the spectrum tend to not be labeled conspiracy theories. Which ones deserve such better treatment, out of curiosity?
I don’t know anything about the first or last items in this list, but I don’t see anything else crazy on there. “Conspiracy theory” strictly would refer to any of your list when unproven, however if you look at the use of that term in reality, it’s far more often used to describe an apeshit theory like the us government planning 9/11 or the earth being flat. Something like those, you need to ignore several obvious basic arguments against them to even entertain them.
Edit: rereading your original comment, it sounds like we are both saying the same thing really.
Conspiracy theories should not all be tarred with the same brush.
Ideas that aren’t on the insane end of the spectrum tend to not be labeled conspiracy theories. Which ones deserve such better treatment, out of curiosity?
All these were once theories
McDonalds ice cream machine failures and repair contracts.
Phones listening to conversations and giving adverts.
Tobacco company cancer denials
Oil company climate change denials denial.
Banks fixing lending rates.
Banks lending to drug cartels.
Tuskegee
Operation Snow White
I don’t know anything about the first or last items in this list, but I don’t see anything else crazy on there. “Conspiracy theory” strictly would refer to any of your list when unproven, however if you look at the use of that term in reality, it’s far more often used to describe an apeshit theory like the us government planning 9/11 or the earth being flat. Something like those, you need to ignore several obvious basic arguments against them to even entertain them.
Edit: rereading your original comment, it sounds like we are both saying the same thing really.
If you want more crazy, Mk ultra and the 3 moon landing lights.