this evening's discussion shall be on the terms 'conspiracy theory' and 'conspiracy theorist'... one could argue, nay, one must argue that these terms do an incredible disservice to those who wish to appeal to reason by conifering an entirely meritless legitimacy of the scientific method. those peddlers and consumers care not for the rigors of proving/disproving a theory, nor are they theoreticians in any affirmative sense of the word. indeed *puffs pipe*, they vehemently discount information disproving their "theory" while voraciously devouring that information which confirms their "theory". where do we observe this behavior o-lovers-of-sophy? that's absolutely correct, in belief, in particular, religious belief. therefore, it is forthwith proposed we translate these misnomer terms into the pronomer terms ' conspiracy belief' and 'conspiracy believers'... eh, cheerios and cinnamon toast crunch well chaps.
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