More thoughts...for a conspiracy guy, Oliver Stone is actually pretty lucid..."Platoon" and "Oliver Stone's History of the US" are good stuff. My own take on conspiracy theories is thus:

https://scottvern.medium.com/the-case-against-conspiracy-theories-b48b91b2aeca

As a Civil Engineer I always get jumped by "friends" (now ex friends) who say things like "But you're an engineer! You know that the World Trade Center HAD to be taken down by a thermite explosion", and I reply "its possible but far from conclusive...I suggest YOU get a Civil Engineering degree and decide for yourself".