There are degrees of conspiracy theory, and as a term it's been highly undermined and politicized, sort of like 'fake news'.
I think that it's easy to fall into a false dichotomy between 'believing that everything conventional is true' and 'conapiracy theories are real'.
Sometimes conspiracy theorists defend themselves by asking things like 'do you trust the government/corporations/church...?' as if I must either trust everything a government has ever said or (eg.) believe it's harbouring secret ET bases. Or that no doctor has ever lied or they are hiding the secret cancer cure.
And yea, maybe I am missing something that's real. The issue is that there is such a deluge of crap, that no one can possibly know every theory. You could spend months or years just researching one of (9/11, crisis actor, qanon, moon landing, telepathy, etc).
We may just be talking about different types of conspiracy theories though, as mentioned by the other responder.
I think that it's easy to fall into a false dichotomy between 'believing that everything conventional is true' and 'conapiracy theories are real'.
Sometimes conspiracy theorists defend themselves by asking things like 'do you trust the government/corporations/church...?' as if I must either trust everything a government has ever said or (eg.) believe it's harbouring secret ET bases. Or that no doctor has ever lied or they are hiding the secret cancer cure.
And yea, maybe I am missing something that's real. The issue is that there is such a deluge of crap, that no one can possibly know every theory. You could spend months or years just researching one of (9/11, crisis actor, qanon, moon landing, telepathy, etc).
We may just be talking about different types of conspiracy theories though, as mentioned by the other responder.