The phrase has entered into normal conversation so strongly that every time someone utters the word conspiracy, it has to be followed by the additional word; theory. As I had always understood, conspiracy theories were easy, wild and ludicrous explanations of an otherwise obvious and clear fact. I always believed and to some extent still do that conspiracy theories were lazy explanations to all things we did not understand and refused to do some mental work to make sense of.

But a friend of mine who teaches at a Las Vegas university recently joked about something that was quite shocking to me actually. We were talking about Epstein conspiracy theories as to how he might have been murdered instead of him committing suicide and how he might be still alive as some social media noise seems to suggest. His joke was that pretty much all the conspiracy theories he had heard since his school days turned out to be realities with the passage of time.

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