ok so that is perhaps not a good example, since there is no secret group,
or institution or set of individuals.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3483477/The-30-greatest-conspiracy-theories-part-1.html
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this has come to be the popular association or definition of the word
conspiracy theory, when something is factual people, or likely, people
don't call it a conspiracy theory unless they are denouncing it, because it
is popularly defined as "fantasy".


On 30 October 2013 18:32, jamileh s.t. <xiaziyna@???> wrote:

> no, i'm not confusing the definition of a word with how it is used. do you
> really think the definitions of words matter and not the things they imply,
> or have come to mean? it is not at all common for people to call some idea,
> for which there is evidence, a conspiracy theory.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis in popular culture, this
> would not be called a conspiracy theory
>