Fwiw, here's the wiki re: Conspiracy theory (sub-links that may be of interest are within):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
Also fwiw, here's a link to a CFC blog entry of mine re: large scale conspiracies lasting in secret debunked by math equation (and why I'm a bit skeptical of that):
http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/en...-math-equation