I think we should all be open to being wrong. (including me )

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I don't see any link. The term "conspiracy theorist" was originally coined by the CIA to discredit critics of the Warren Report. Also, most "conspiracy theories" turn out to be true, or at least partially true. And, as Carl Oglesby once pointed out: "Conspiracy is politics by normal means".

No, for one thing, " conspiracy theorist " tend to advance ideas that postulate a lack of control by the individual or manipulation of great swathes of people and see themselves as victims of a conspiracy, where as in your contention creationist see themselves as a part of an open conspiracy to bring the world in to order and to persecute "the profane" others.
Secondly as is well known now the term " conspiracy theorist " was a deliberate invention of the CIA as revealed in CIA Document 1035-960: weaponized terms and language, released in the 1990s under the thirty year freedom of information act. It was introduced during the Warren commision investigation in to the Kennedy assassination to bury truth in masses of easily disproved misinformation that could all be written off snidely by the catch all term of "an invention of mentally unstable conspiracy theorists "
However now that so many actual "conspiracy theories " have proven to be true, notably Watergate, the term has somewhat lost its bite.

Nope, there’s enough actual conspiracies not to have to make them up. Many, so successful, they’ve ventured into the realm of ..obvious.

I think that there is certainly a lot of truth in this, and it is useful and worthwhile. But, the mischief maker in me wants to point out, that these people may also be indulging in teleological thinking, when they connect conspiracy theory with creationism via teleological thinking, since it may just be that if you are naive enough to believe one you may be naive enough to swallow the other.

Generally I don’t think governments are that capable, so I don’t give that much credence to conspiracy theories. Most of them seem to be cobbled together from doubt and thin evidence, and I think those who push them like Info Wars do mankind a disservice by clouding the truth. Mankind’s collective adherence to the truth as an ideal seems to be under strain, with so many people arguing for fringe positions.

What gets me about conspiracy theories is I have never come across any organisation that efficient. Really can you think of any time a secret could be kept by more than 10 people, for ever?

It can be fun to explore alternate explanations for how things happened, but beyond entertainment value I need real evidence to accept any story. I'm not so naïve as to think it's beyond people and governments to lie to the public, and we don't always have all of the facts, but a few competing ideas strung together by the holes in our understanding isn't adequate.