text: do people who believe in a conspiracy theory believe in all conspiracy theories? i am just wondering! if you believe for example that we never landed on the moon, do you think that people who believe that the earth is flat are mad? is your conviction absolute? does it make you more tolerant of other people's believes or more suspicious? i think at least some conspiracy theories are just too incredible to be believed.  i have no source from which i can quote, except to say that there is a general and increasing disrespect for authority of all kinds.  this may in part be due to our believe that those authorities must be hiding something from us.  i think ever since the jfk assassination in particular, it has been open season on authority.  government are, of course not going to give credence to any of these cts, but their taciturnity only makes the ctists want to shout louder.  it's a vicious circle in which conspiracy theories will only get more bizarre and extreme.