I've been thinking about this for a while. I know a lot of people object to the purposely derisive term, Conspiracy Theorist. So I'm suggesting we brainstorm and come up with a more accurate description of a person who thinks deeply, critically, asks questions, does research, does not automatically follow the crowd. What do you say?
Post your suggestions here and let's see if some clever fren nails it with the perfect term that WE can start using and pushing out into the collective conscience. Thanks.
That's easy. A pattern detector.
These are the features you see most of the type of person who is typically called a "conspiracy theorist":
Can be both open minded and skeptical when analyzing an event
Inquisitive by nature and fearless in execution
Critical thinking always used to interpret the world around them and to reassess one's existing bias when needed.
Understands how to research and self educate
Knowledge of history, especially the darker parts of history most people aren't taught
Ability to recognize patterns and form logical theories based on those patterns regardless of how uncomfortable that theory may make others.
Factualist.
Times change, terms change. We used to call them Kremlinologists.
It's about time we call them Military Prosecutors.
How about "fact checker" :-) .
Intellectual analyst. 😋
Conspiracy Oracles.
Common Senser.
Critical thinker does it for me
Yet Proven Truth Spinner
Conspiracy Factualist/Realist
Investigator
Normie.
Why?
The term is aptly named:
A conspiracy is easily done, all it takes is a deal between two people.
Theory is in science the highest possible level of explanation for observed phenomena, based on facts and testing method, and repeatable with the same outcome.
Personally, I have no problem with the term other than that it is an adverb adjective construction, which makes it a No-Fact.
: Conspiracy-theorist.
FWIW, I don't consider "conspiracy theorist" to be pejorative, even though I recognize that it usually is in colloquial use.
For a little while, the notion that Nixon was personally involved in the Watergate burglary was a conspiracy theory, and the people who believed it were conspiracy theorists. Then it was proven to have happened with the tapes, and it went from a conspiracy theory to just a conspiracy.
There's nothing inherently wrong with being a conspiracy theorist. Conspiracy theorists have theories regarding apparent/potential conspiracies. That's neither good nor bad.
Dismissing someone as a conspiracy theorist isn't useful. If there's a weak point in their theory, that's fine to address, but I don't find it appropriate to denigrate someone merely for having a theory about a conspiracy.