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That's fine :-) It ties in with what I commented above, i.e. conspiracists first assuming that disagreement must be culpable malice.
I think you must somehow have read what I wrote as the exact reverse of what I intended. (Unless you are calling yourself a conspiracist.) TAG is not assuming that anything must be culpable malice, he is just finishing off a joke left 2/3 done.