In April, the MAHA Mom Coalition, an organization that claims it advocates for “parental rights, holistic health, clean food & water, and medical freedom,” put out an unusual call. They wanted to talk to the farmers who’d been finding mysterious boxes of ticks in their fields—farmers and boxes that, by every available indication, don’t seem to exist.
“Can anybody reading this right now validate this?” the MAHA Mom Coalition wrote on their Instagram page. “We’d love to connect with and speak to these farmers!!”
I like to use the term “conspiracy tale” for those nutjob theories. Because yeah, real conspiracies exist and theorizing about them is legitimate.
In the end it’s all about the bullshit part, not the conspiracy part.
I agree, we need another word for a conspiracy theory that isn’t bullshit, because real conspiracies exist, but almost all “conspiracy theories” we hear about are far out tinfoil hat bullshit.