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We are way past this now. If anything, we have the opposite problems of "apology theorists" and "coincidence theorists".

People have been trained to think "conspiracy" is some BS endeavour that includes aliens in Roswell, mind control, illuminati etc.

Fact is, most of history has seen covert action by governments and organisations. Those are also conspiracies (by definition), and it's totally wrong (and disingenuous) to lump them with BS conspiracy theories.