> What do you mean, "conspiracy garbage"

"I've read about the US government doing bad things in the past, and so, I'm allowed to say that any article with a headline which I find provocative, is paid government propaganda"

That's a garbage line of reasoning and I don't care for it.

Did the "academic and scholar" you cited, write anything at all, to back up the claim that the op link is paid propaganda by the government?

It's conspiracy garbage to cite "huh did you know a highly respected academic says that Jose in Arizona smuggled heroin? Because I read this scholar's work, which means I'm now qualified to read a RAND study headline and conclude that it's worded so provocatively that it must be government propaganda"