Reply #1: It's used to shame into silence those who question authority. [View All]

[Minstrel Boy]

Posted some thoughts about it on my blog a few months ago:

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/magic-bullshit-theory.html

Kristina Borjesson, editor of Into the Buzzsaw, says that "anyone who doesn't buy the government's unproven theory...is a 'conspiracy theorist'" and

Tacitly attached to the term "conspiracy theorist" are all kinds of other nouns and adjectives like "goofball," "nutcake," "bottomfeeder," "crazy," and so on. Using insulting and false labels to marginalize dissenting or politically incorrect voices is a ploy that government and corporations as well as the press use on a daily basis.