- US government poisoning alcohol during prohibition
    - US government using dead baby body parts for radiation testing without consent of the parents
    - US government giving Black people syphilis on purpose
    - Operation paperclip
    - US intel's heart attack gun
    - Operation Mockingbird (CIA infiltrating media)
    - US Air Force experimenting with pheromones as a weapon
    - CIA funded Dalai Lama and related guerrilla forces
    - polio vaccine spread a cancer-causing virus
    - Operation Northwoods (US intelligence planned to stage a false flag operation in the USA and blame Cuban terrorists)
    - Tobacco companies knew cigarette smoke was deadly
    - FBI spying on John Lennon, Martin Luther King Junior, et al
    - The entire US/Vietnam war, predicated on a golf of Tonkin "incident", which never happened
    - Iran-Contras
    - MK ULTRA
    - PRISM (Snowden)
    - weapons of mass destruction
    - 9/11 having nothing to do with Iraq invasion
    - Panama papers
    - Vaccine passports
    - Agenda 21/2030

Honestly, the list goes on for so long that you would fill your disk with text before you exhausted it.

With this knowledge, you have to be woefully illogical to come to the blanket conclusion that "conspiracy theories" are just some form of ridiculous religion.

There are people who believe things that are totally ridiculous and unrealistic. There are idiots in all walks of life, but using those idiots to attempt to dismiss everything that you deem to be a "conspiracy theory" is as ridiculous as dismissing all comedians as "misogynistic racists" just because one comedian tells racist and misogynist jokes.