re: #278 HappyWarrior

Yep, very true. There’s always going to be someone out there hollering and hollering that space aliens invented donuts to fatten humans up but you’re right, it’s when CTers have political power that they’re a problem because they have actual influence on policy.

To take a good example, climate change deniers are conspiracy theorists. They probably don’t think of themselves as such, but it’s what they are: they believe that 99% of the climatologists on earth, every scientific body, every major government on earth are either deliberately lying about global warming, or lying about the amount of scientific certitude we have that global warming exists.

Yet you’ll probably find global warming deniers mocking other people for being conspiracy theorists on other topics. Sometimes people don’t think things through, and so wind up being accidental conspiracy theorists.