@GeraldKutney
It may be a matter of shades of gray, but I sort of viewed the subtle difference being:

Crackpots are more about the grand theory and proving something that is wrong. Their persecution complex comes from no one believing them :
https://youtu.be/11lPhMSulSU

Conspiracy theorists start with distrust of authority & establishment, and develop ideas to justify their distrust:
https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44

#Crackpots #ConspiracyTheory #Qanon #FlatEarth #DanOlson #AngelaCollier

@astro_jcm
Recently watched the video below.
Brought me back to a time in the 1990s when my dad (degree in math, but only amateur physics interest) had a local guy sending him letters and talking his ear off about how cosmology and light as a speed limit were wrong because clearly speeds are arithmetically additive.
https://youtu.be/11lPhMSulSU

#CrackpotPhysics #AngelaCollier