re: #12 Dark_Falcon

They never bother to define how the conspiracy would actually influence events in a case like that, because an attempt to do so would force them to actually think rather than react with outrage.

Conspiracy theories generally fall apart once you have to start explaining them. Because you have to bring in the thing that generally kills all conspiracy theories: logic. Such as explaining how some shadowy cabal can simultaneously be all-powerful and yet absolutely powerless at the same time.