It's only fake-believe: how to deal with a conspiracy theorist

Unless you’ve been on a silent retreat for the past year, you will have almost certainly heard the rumours – that the pandemic is an elaborate hoax, or that the virus was created as a Chinese weapon, or that dangerous elites are trying to kill off the elderly and to establish a new world order, or that the symptoms are caused by 5G.

It is troubling enough to see these ideas on social media. But when you are hearing them from your family, your friends, or a casual acquaintance, it...