Natural News) The term “conspiracy theorist” w

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Natural News) The term “conspiracy theorist” was created by the CIA as a derogatory term to limit the so-called “Overton window” of allowable debate. When the establishment wants to shut down all discussion of a specific topic — say, the 9/11 WTC 7 building planned demolition, or more recently the Mandalay Bay mass shooting in Vegas that was obviously carried out by multiple shooters — they simply slap the “conspiracy theory” label on it.

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines conspiracy theory as "the theory that an event or phenomenon occurs as a result of a conspiracy between interested parties; spec. a belief that some covert but influential agency (typically political in motivation and oppressive in intent) is responsible for an unexplained event".

It cites a 1909 article in The American Historical Review as the earliest usage example,[10][11] although it also appears in journals as early as April 1870.[12] The word "conspiracy" derives from the Latin con- ("with, together" and spirare ("to breathe".

According to John Ayto, the phrase conspiracy theory was originally a neutral term and acquired a pejorative connotation only in the 1960s, with an implication that the theorist is paranoid.[13] Lance deHaven-Smith has suggested that the term was deployed in the 1960s by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to discredit John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories.[14]

Robert Blaskiewicz rejects such claims, asserting instead that the term has always been derogatory and pointing to examples demonstrating that this has been so since the nineteenth century.[15][16]

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