Escaping the Rabbit Hole How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect

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The Boston Marathon bombing was staged with actors and fake blood, Obama is a Muslim, nanofibers infest your skin, the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition, the Moon landings were a hoax, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and the Earth is flat. All these claims are bunk, falsehoods, mistakes and lies. But some people believe they are true. Why is this, and how can you help people escape the rabbit hole of conspiracy thinking?
Author Mick West</b> has been debunking false claims regarding conspiracy theories for over a decade. In this book he explains what this conspiracy theory bunk is all about, how people get sucked into false beliefs, and how you can help them out.
But how do you debunk effectively? If your relative trots out one of these claims and you've said "check it on Snopes.com" and they still think it's true, then what can you do about it? What if the claim is a new one, about a breaking news story, where do you go to verify or...