The problem is once someone feels special or makes money from repeating conspiracy theories or pseudo science claims without any effort other than listening to some crackpot for a few minutes they have incentive to ignore or reject facts of reality based on experimentation that disagree with their professed opinions.
We are all susceptible to confirmation bias, but if you don’t know what it is or how it works pointing it out won’t change their confidence in the evidence supporting their conclusion and multiple other conclusions.
You’re talking to someone with less educated views than you’d find in a fifth grade science class and trying to use objective facts gathered with a methodology they don’t understand to show them they’re wrong, but the only engagement they are demonstrating they are capable of are mockery or the very long task of building a scientific understanding from the basics up.
The problem is once someone feels special or makes money from repeating conspiracy theories or pseudo science claims without any effort other than listening to some crackpot for a few minutes they have incentive to ignore or reject facts of reality based on experimentation that disagree with their professed opinions.
We are all susceptible to confirmation bias, but if you don’t know what it is or how it works pointing it out won’t change their confidence in the evidence supporting their conclusion and multiple other conclusions.
You’re talking to someone with less educated views than you’d find in a fifth grade science class and trying to use objective facts gathered with a methodology they don’t understand to show them they’re wrong, but the only engagement they are demonstrating they are capable of are mockery or the very long task of building a scientific understanding from the basics up.