[odawg]

“Either the conspiracy theorists are right or the coincidence theorists are right.”

“conspiracy theorists”????

So, still using a thought tool generated by the CIA, as per Tucker explanation, to control what you think.

The idea that “conspiracy theory” was a smear generated by the CIA to quash unapproved thoughts has been known for a long time, but people still, as a knee-jerk, are mesmerized by it.

[Joe 6-pack]

I think you miss the point of my post. I'm well aware the term, "conspiracy theory/-ist," was coined to marginalize people as kooks. It's a term I embrace, certainly with regard to the JFK assassination. It's why I have come to use the term, "coincidence theorist," as a counter to the bias and derogatory connotations implied by the term, "conspiracy theorist."

My point is, the information that has been released really leaves any thinking person with a binary choice regarding JFK:

1. Accept that there was a conspiracy and more than one person involved.

2. Explain away all the coincidences as mere coincidence.

The more one digs into the events surrounding the killing and the people involved, the harder it is to explain things as coincidence and people who continue to cling to explaining things through an increasingly unlikely series of happenstance are, IMHO the real kooks (aka "coincidence theorists.")

[PIF]

The idea that “conspiracy theory” was a smear generated by the CIA to quash unapproved thoughts has been known for a long time, but people still, as a knee-jerk, are mesmerized by it.

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It first appeared in a NYT article on the assassination in 1964. FWIW