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Conspiracy theories are as old as humanity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories

What makes you think that they are a concept developed by the CIA?

>>Paradi+(OP)
Even the exact phrase "conspiracy theory" predates the CIA by at least 40 years. So it seems the poster's theory about the origin of the conspiracy theory is, reflectively, a conspiracy theory itself. Given that the CIA is so often the subject of such conspiracy theories, I suspect irony might have been employed.

>>techno+n4
Now I can't tell if the commenter legitimately thinks that no scientific mind would dismiss conspiracy theories or if they're making fun of people who want scientists to entertain conspiracy theories.