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    LZ Granderson: Alex Jones is no kind of 'theorist'

    I don't like using the phrase "conspiracy theorist" to describe people like Alex Jones, because people like Jones are not "theorists." They're snake oil salesmen. Theorists would be more like scientists. Building on knowledge with hypotheses, perhaps even testing them with research and experiments with controls, collecting data. ... You know, they check to see whether their theories are true. ...
    by LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times Aug 09, 2022 3 minutes
    Alex Jones of Infowars arrives to speak to participants in the MAGA Million March for Trump rally outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2020.

    I don't like using the phrase "conspiracy theorist" to describe people like Alex Jones, because people like Jones are not "theorists." They're snake oil salesmen.

    Theorists would be more like scientists. Building on knowledge with hypotheses, perhaps even testing them with research and experiments with controls, collecting data. ... You know, they check to see whether their theories are true.

    People like Jones are only interested in getting an audience to believe them. Tucker Carlson immediately comes to mind, but

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