I dislike conspiracy theories. It’s not because I don’t believe any of them. Some may be true. I’m open to the idea of bigfoot being out there or aliens being up there or anything that might be down there. As a journalist, though, I’m a professional skeptic. I require proof and I’ve seen no compelling proof to any of the prevailing conspiracy theories. What I dislike most about conspiracy theories is how intellectually dishonest they are. A good conspiracy theory is impossible to debunk. We’ve seen a great example of that very recently. After the Department of Defense released photos, videos and other files of unidentified anomalous phenomena earlier this month, the Colorado state director for a large UFO research group was disappointed. “I don’t think we got a lot of real stuff,” he said in a story in The Gazette. So the government released a bunch of UFO files. But they didn’t release the REAL files. The conspiracy deepens. “I don’t think that it was a forthright release,” he said.…