Venezuela's Chavez: did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?

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27. The acceptance of the "conspiracy theory" meme REQUIRES shitcanning this.

It's conspiracy theory until the mainstream media discusses it, which means, for example, that manipulation of the mainstream media is always, by definition, conspiracy theory.

On the other hand, since the US has a long, well-established in fact history of exactly this sort of behavior, there's nothing whatsoever unbelievable, suspicious, or paranoid about it. It's a simple question of whether we can find a solid trail of evidence, whether we find evidence of a deliberate smear campaign by Chavez and others, including lots of Americans, or we have to simply leave it at "unproven".

But the entire DU rule privileging the notion of "conspiracy theory" makes discussion of many real, documented political phenomena impossible until the mainstream media catches up, if ever. And in this case, if the whole discussion is wasted on whether it's a legitimate subject of discussion or not, it's unlikely that there will be a lot of dispassionate examination of the evidence, or exploration for new evidence.