AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Try Bayes’ theorem. Ask them to give percent likelihoods for the following:
A. The odds that the government (or whoever) is trying to kill everyone, before taking the evidence of excess deaths into account
B. The odds of seeing excess deaths for any possible reason, not just their conspiracy hypothesis
C. The odds of seeing excess deaths if the conspiracy hypothesis were true.
Then logically, the odds of the conspiracy being real given the excess deaths should be A*C/B. If you disagree on the outcome, you must disagree on one or more of the assumptions (probably A—if it’s B, you can find the objective odds by checking historical data).
If you still disagree on the prior assumption (A), you can set aside the excess deaths argument and ask what other evidence led them to form that prior assumption. Then you can repeat the process until you either reach agreement or they’re left with an assumption with no evidence.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can’t use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to get into in the first place
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Well, not with that attitude.
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
…You are asking people who… willfully choose to be idiots to… do science?
I mean, you do you, but at the point someone is willing to believe “the top scientists in the world are trying to get you killed” you might as well consider them lost, as they are ignoring elementary-level statistics.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
People are different and respond to the same message differently depending on the source. OP might have an in with their loved one and therefore a chance of changing their minds.