What is a conspiracy theory?

Answer 1

It's normally applied to a version of events that a group of people believe to be true in direct conflict to the official version. Two well known examples of conspiracy theories are that man did NOT land on the moon but all the televised lunar landings were in fact an elaborate hoax, and that Roswell was not a Project MOGUL weather balloon carrying prototype spy gear but an alien landing on the Earth.

It should be noted that conspiracy theorists often have to ignore available facts in order to promote their beliefs. For example, the technology to fake the Apollo flights, moon rocks, and video, etc. does not yet exist, let alone exist in 1969. And all the hard evidence at Roswell (photos) are of Project MOGUL wreckage.

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A conspiracy is where a group of people plan a secret task that is only known to selected people.

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A conspiracy theory:

1. Claims that nothing is what is appears to be.
2. That the 'official' version or explanation is untrue, but that there is a secret, true version.
3. That 'the powers that be' are actively trying to suppress the true version in order to dupe the public.
4. Pretends that some vast group of conspirators actually cares what the public believes.

Answer 2

A conspiracy theorist is someone who comes up with and advertises conspiracy theories.

Answer 3

if you mean conspiracy then it means a secret plan by a group of people to do wrong (syn. plot, scheme, etc.)