It appears to have become commonplace in America to use the phrase "conspiracy theorist" as a form of blanket attack against anybody or anything which scrutinises or questions the status quo in any regard. In other words, if you question what you are told by political authority, you are to be mocked with this disparaging phrase and compared to people who believe Elvis is still alive. Strangely -- or perhaps not so strangely, dependent upon how clever you are -- you are never compared to people who think Jesus is still alive, since the status quo tells us this belief is perfectly normal, sane and rational.In fact, let's just examine the sheer, wanton untenability of trying to shut down arguments with this disingenuous personal attack instead of a dialectic of reason. Are right wing Americans presumably under some kind of illusion that conspiracies do not happen in the real world? Because history is absolutely littered with them. In Britain, we celebrate the gunpowder conspiracy plot as a public holiday on November 5th. The implication that, "You believe there was a conspiracy, therefore you are to automatically be mocked" is, quite frankly, one of the most egregious aberrations of logic I have ever stumbled across in my entire natural life. Indeed, I refer to the late great George Carlin, who famously redirected the mockery where it actually belongs, when he said: "Wow! The idea that powerful people sometimes get together and actually make a plan!"There was a populist resurgence in utilisation of the "conspiracy theorist" rhetorical attack in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy. Thenceforth, perhaps the real tragedy did not happen on 9/11, but rather in the subsequent months when dozens of academics were shut down for challenging the official version of events. Some of them were fired from their jobs; others quietly retired. Consider for example the fate of American physics professor Steven Jones, who was forced into early retirement by BYU, for publishing a paper entitled: "Why Indeed Did The WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?". Or consider Danish chemistry professor Niels Harrit, who has been the victim of smear attacks from the American right ever since publishing his 2009 study: "Active Thermitic Material Discovered In Dust From The 9/11 WTC Catastrophe." Dozens of scientists, architects, engineers and intellectuals have been attacked and shut down with this ignorant, cynical, pernicious smear that they are conspiracy theorists and hence everything they say is to be ignored and/or mocked. 9/11 was the day the American public demonstrated its dazzling gullibility to the rest of the world, and the sheer irony is that it was fooled by the "turn the truth upside down" rhetoric of the American right. The American public was quite simply convinced that the gullibility resided within those with the audacity to question what they were told. Everybody else became a patriotic American genius for pretending to understand the impossible physics and contradictory discourse of Shyam Sunder, head of the NIST "investigation". The government knew exactly what it was doing. It made a direct appeal to the egos of people trained from birth to be egotists, and those people fell for it.University research in Kent, England, suggests that contrary to the American version of reality, those who question the events of 9/11 are actually significantly more numerous than those who do not:-https://newsvoice.se/2013/07/15/nya-studier-konspirationsteoretiker-mer-sansade-an-mainstream-folk/
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