Re:Five things we still don’t know about water
by fouric on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:48PM
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"Conspiracy theory" is usually used in the non-technical sense of the word to be derogatory, or imply that the theory is false; conspiracy theories that the writer doesn't want to imply as false (e.g. Epstein didn't kill himself, members of Congress engaging in insider trading) seem to not usually be described using the specific phrase "conspiracy theory" - even when that's what they are.
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Re:Five things we still don’t know about water
by betenoire on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:26PM
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I get the derogatory nature of the term, but both of your examples include groups of people keeping information from the rest of us. I'm curious if you have an example of a derogatory conspiracy theory that doesn't have a literal conspiracy in it.
Re:Five things we still don’t know about water
by fouric on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:47PM
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My point was that the above example was called a conspiracy theory because it was against the norm, not merely because it was a conspiracy, because there are conspiracies that aren't called that because of the connotations of the term. I'm not saying that the term describes non-conspiracies.