schmidlap
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You can't prove anything to an online zealot. Period. I gave up on that here a year or two ago.
Hey, at least they're predictable!
Empirical Data vs Ideological Dogma
Disinterested objectivity vs self-deluded subjectivity.
Knowledge, compiled and analyzed by credentialed experts is routinely rejected - quite vehemently in some cases - by those who have no such expertise, but strong beliefs and ideological predispositions.
Spewing personal vituperations is a frequent accompaniment to that irrationality.
The true-believers live in a faith-based echo chamber pot, antagonistic to fact-based information that does not comport with their credo.
Do they have alternative, comparable, reputable sources for their aberrations?
No. They merely rage against expertise whenever the data-directed consensus challenges their politically-correct orthodoxy.
They will wallow in denial over a democratic election - even after multiple recounts, audits, and dozens of court challenges have upheld the result - if they don’t like it.
This dogmatic submission is not limited to political fanaticism, but extends to matters of science such as public health and climatology.
Paranoia is their panacea. (Take as needed -megadoses if required.)
There is no reasoning with such folk, because their determinative criteria are not reasonable.
They believe!