How to Argue with Conspiracy Theorists (And Win)

So you’ve gone home for Christmas, and as you’re sitting down to eat dinner, your “crazy” uncle starts talking about how COVID-19 is a hoax, or about how Obama wanted to take his guns away, or about how GMOs and Chemtrails are secret government plots to implant mind-control devices into our brains.

How do you even begin to argue with this? Often, when our loved ones have fallen down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, they seem to be out of touch with reality. So…what do we do about that?

Come with me as I explore all the ways (both right and wrong) that you can go about ACTUALLY saving your loved ones from the clutches of conspiracy theory thinking.