Why Do We Embrace Conspiracy Theories?

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:

> I'm not sure about how the question is worded, but it certainly is worthy of
> discussion. I wonder what other P-listers made of the article. I'll reserve my
> own view for now. Dave, what did you think?

... seeing as all a consoiracy ultimately is is two or more people
gathered in, well, something's name, why is "conspiracy theory"
necessarily a perjorative, is my question?  Sometimes, they're
"simply"/"just"/whatever explanations ...