How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories

> There is no such thing as a conspiracy theory. Every conspiracy theory in existence can be explained in terms of math, technology, physics, psychology and behavioral biology.

I don't know whether that is true of every conspiracy theory, but here is one example that supports your point:

While finishing up teacher's college, I was paired with a maths teacher who believed in 9/11 conspiracy theories and who mentioned them in class. From his point of view, a delayed "explosion" lower down in the tower was evidence that the destruction was planned. Left in an awkward position, I did the only thing I could think of: I used math. Simply put, the time that it would take a shock wave to propagate through the steel structure matched the delay so the "explosion" did not prove his conspiracy theory. That was one heck of a teachable moment that transformed an otherwise abstract math lesson into something that could be applied to every day life.

(Edit: clarification on the intent of the calculation.)

A really interesting example of this is the whole glyphosate case that /r/environment goes nuts over.

On the one hand, nearly every scientific, health and farming community in the world says using glyphosate is safe. Yet there was a legal case that said otherwise - so /r/environment jumped on that as truth. Legal precedence science does not make.

Thinking like that also makes it really easy to create new laws, e.g. that homosexuality is an affront to god and should be illegal. Then claim it as scientific fact for the opposing side.

Q is so out there that I suspect it was made to "poison the well" so to speak. When it appeared there was some genuine controversy regarding certain political persons and their associates instagram profiles where they posed with fistful of euros, drugs and various children who literally looked like they were nabbed from the streets. Also terms such as "chicken lover" was frequently used in association to pictures of grown men holding little kids.

I am not saying that comet ping pong has a rape dungeon, but its undisputable that they had some pretty wierd entertainment shows featuring "not so kid friendly" nudity, anal insertions etc.

For me Q seems to be a useful excuse for the media to assert censorship and filtration of information. Its just noise put out for those who actively seek out the fringe or the controversial. Like when political forums are bombarded with flat earthers, same shit. Just useful idiots used to spread noise. I believe its some letter soup shenanigans to be honest.

Do you have any data on the form their mind is creating to hold these theories "true"? The form could be factual data (lists of things) supporting or disproving their theory, creative imagery (internally seen things) obscuring what is normally viewed as reality, or perhaps sound or voices in the form of hallucinations (internally heard things).

After armchair analyzing this for nearly 4 years, I'm pretty sure Trump is a "bigly visualizer" and has some ability? to make others see what he is seeing, while at the same time filtering facts that thinking mind might normally bring.

To clarify, when I mean facts I mean non-imagery or non- sound/vibration based data forms: words, labels, conditionals, etc., which are used to form a process which may be followed by another to arrive at the same "conclusion" to what is currently being seen through our collective awareness.

It would seem about 43% or more of the population of the United States is infected with a means of operation which eliminates or completely disables critical thinking mechanisms and relies exclusively on internal fabricated imagery or audio for their measure of "truth".

Maybe narcissism has gone mainstream here.

What's funny about that?