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My problem is not so much believing conspiracy theories but wanting concrete evidence of anything which is claimed. AFAIC that is the way to go, and it should be what everyone tries to do. Obviously no-one has the time or inclination to do this with everything, but you can treat everything with some suspicion imo.

And just to point out the glaringly obvious, anyone who claimed that Iraq didn't have WMDs before the invasion of Iraq was put into thhe loony category, and their opinion was summarily dismissed out of hand by government and media alike. Which left most of the public completely convinced there was no case to make as well. That's the problem with trusting those who give us our information with anything. People can laugh at conspiracy theorists all they want, but they don't cause the death of hundreds of thousands of people...