Frankly, I don't think they have hypotheses, either. A hypothesis is also based on some sort of evidence, or at least some sort of expectation of what the answer will be--and you must be willing to have it proven wrong.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Yeah, not theory or hypothesis. I'd say conjecture, but that suggests acknowledged uncertainty and a willingness to be persuaded otherwise.

How about dogma? a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds

That would make them Conspiracy Dogmatists. But, CDs is taken.

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Okay, so how about we try "Conspiracy Suppositionists" (if you ignore Dictionary.com's definition of Supposition)

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

More seriously, I prefer "conspiracy fantasy". It seems to cover all the nuances.

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Conspiracysts works for me. When we ban one, we can refer to it as conspirasectomy.

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But then the burden of proof is on you to prove that they're fantasizing. I'd rather go with "conspiracy believers", it's less accusatory, and it sounds less dismissive and snap-judgemental than the term "fantasists". (I know it's not a snap judgement, and you know it, but the general masses who think of "intellectuals" as smug and judgemental will see it in the worst possible light.)

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Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I prefer to act all snooty and know-it-all-esque. (but not really, particularly since I so often make it very apparent that I do not know it all ).

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

That isn't hard, because I know the truth. The underpants gnomes did it. All of it.

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Agreed!

I like "conspiracy fantasy" too.

Goes along with fantasies about convicted pirates and whatnot.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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