It's only fake-believe: how to deal with a conspiracy theorist
My intuition is that this is not very good advice.  I don&#x27;t think it is very likely to talk someone out of a conspiracy theory - unless you&#x27;re really well prepared for the discussion and they are willing to listen and change their mind.<p>If you model the conspiracy theorist as being similar to yourself, I think you&#x27;d have to assume there is roughly equal likelihood that you will convince them that covid is caused by a virus (or whatever), as there is that they will convince you that it is caused by their cell phone - that is, not much chance at all of changing people&#x27;s minds by discussion like this.