Ordinary Banana

sorry, you're stuck with it. Fighting is it like 'ethical hackers' trying to make 'crackers' stick. Linguistic quixotics.

oh I'm not proposing an alternate term - just that it's a boring slur rather than anything precise

seems precise to me: the enabling premise is always collusion among a set of hidden conspirators, no?

"The term 'conspiracy theory' if used logically...would be about as useful as the terms 'corruption allegation' or 'suspected crime'"

those seem useful terms to me. They do pick out a subclass from a larger class...

yeah they're the word with the connotation removed

fact that insti academics who use CT as slur tells you they have bias against belief in power of elites=egalitarian values

alternatively tells you they have bias against believing that systems can be radically diff + worse than they appear