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That "if you have evidence" cuts both ways. You can't deny that Recent shenangians have pulled the paranoid delusionals out of the woodwork...

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Has it? Examples? (I'm not saying it hasn't; I don't know)

I don't deny that some people do actually have paranoid delusions. But there's a big difference between a paranoid delusion and a (conspiracy) theory. The point I'm trying to make is that in light of recent conspiracies, we have to cut the conspiracy theorists some slack.

I disagree. They are bound to the same burden of proof everyone else is.

I agree, as I stated above in another comment. When asked whether the burden of proof is on them, I replied: "It is. That doesn't mean we have to marginalize people who have theories, even if they don't have any evidence to back them up. My approach is to entertain all possibilities until they are proven to me to be false. In that way I attempt to avoid tunnel vision."

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