Re: want to get mad ?? Google www.cchrint.org. It is a travesty !!!!!!

[nellie]

Ok think my blood pressure just went up a few notches!!

As to the conspiracy theory in general:

I think you could when calm ( I tried but got too ticked off) easily argue against this article with the fact that it doesn’t mention any facts itself. That said however, I don’t think that someone firmly entrenched in the anti-pharma conspiracy belief is going to want to hear about it.

I too would be interested in Dr.J’s input on this.

Your post caught my attention because one of my daughters was telling me the other day that “they” were suppressing a cancer cure because of the potential billions of loss to the pharmaceutical industry. When I asked her where she read it, she couldn’t really remember. I had to pose a few questions to get her to think about the logic of this and I believe I got through to her, but this kind of thing drives me nuts.

In the meantime, just googled “responses to conspiracy theories” and found this post

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/conspiracy-theories/how-to-deal-with-a-ct-at-work-t4347-40.html

I think the following excerpt from one of the posts is interesting:

“As an ex-conspiracy theorist, I believe the best way to help him is to suggest alternate ways of seeing the same thing. CTs are notoriously arrogant – they believe that they can see patterns and relationships which the rest of us cannot (just google the term ‘sheeple’ and, once you’re past the dictionary sites, notice how many hits come from conspiracy sites) and that they are more ‘awake’. When challenged directly they will often resort to emotional and condescending responses. Similar to how religious believers assume we can’t be familiar with their holy books because, if we were, then we’d be converts – CTs will assume you just don’t know enough, and that’s why you don’t believe.

Instead, try to talk about these subjects in ways where their curiosity and need to understand things is actually stimulated: such as understanding fallacies, and the various ways the human brain misinterprets things. They may need time, and a great deal of patience on your part, to gradually realise that their motivation to discover things and see ‘through the veil’ is actually separate from what they end up believing. Unfortunately, from experience, if you challenge them too bluntly, those two things will become compacted together and drive them deeper into self-reinforcing conspiracies.”

Anyway Nunuq68, thanks for a thought provoking post despite the fact it was generated out of what must be supreme frustration. Good luck with your situation, I can only imagine how very trying it must be.

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