But many times it's justified name calling. Because it's not the conspiracy in the theory that is the issue but the lack of evidence in proportion to the strength of their beliefs. And in place of evidence their is paranoia. The problem is conspiracies by their nature are very hard to prove so your evidence for them will likely be weak

So you would say that a "conspiracy theory" is a theory of some alleged conspiracy but with little or very weak evidence?

Not a bad definition in my mind just good to be clear about what we take as the definition of the term.

BTW> Here's an article about how to approach the "conspiracy theorists": https://theconversation.com/how-to-talk-someone-out-of-a-dam...