CV and mad panic behaviour

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I’m pretty amazed that Waleed Aly wasn’t able to shoot down her nonsense more effectively. She had the temerity to compare her fellow conspiracy theorists to Galileo. He was a scientist who went where the facts took him. He was then attacked by the Church on the basis of beliefs that were resistant to contrary proof. Conspiracy  theorists are the inheritors of the Church’s anti-scientific beliefs, though thankfully they have less power.

Ignoring the Galileo comments which are just bizarre, Aly's problem countering the rest of the weirdo shizen highlights the issue. You can't oppose fantasy with fact, the best strategy is to extend the fantasy into any or all of the logical absurdities that it presents.

Many of the nutters suffer a disillusion that has them thinking they know something you don't, I see it as a form of pattern recognition, like when someone sees Jesus in some toast. But the more insidious types have learnt that you cannot disprove a negative, and leverage that technicality.

We try to do the rational thing and offer a proof of a positive, and they respond with more fantasy, which leads to circular rubbish.

Instead develop the fantasy with them, and then when they eventually offer a contradiction refer back to it, if that fails you know two things, you are wasting your time, and they are quite possible morons who are either in line for a Darwin Award or a Dunning-Kruger diagnosis.