QuoteConspiracy theory” is widely acknowledged to be a loaded term. Politicians use it to mock and dismiss allegations against them, while philosophers and political scientists warn that it could be used as a rhetorical weapon to pathologize dissent.
Conspiracy cannot explain hydrochloroquine/ivermectin persecution by Big Pharma by itself: instead of it it's an emergent pluralistic ignorance effect. The main point here is, attitude of people is cumulative like gravitation of massive bodies: the negativism stance of large crowd of socially or professionally interconnected people gets always higher than the bias of individual peers (who thus may feel unbiased, just because they're each surrounded by similarly thinking people). After all, just here on this LENR forum the people should already know, how pluralistic ignorance works against cold fusion.