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 The “conspiracy theorist” has a far healthier sense of skepticism toward unfounded claims than the person who believes world events and history have been sufficiently explained by conventional orthodoxy. 
 there are two kinds of "conspiracy theorists"

there are people who hang around UFO and Flat Earth forums and there are people who do independent research when they are told to inject themselves with experimental MRNA

the enemy deliberately conflates the two 

that said, even the dumbest of flat earthers are relatively harmless whereas those who blindly obey authority are ultimately responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths since the turn of the 20th century ... 
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