Sad proof that refuting bullshit takes infinitely more energy that it took to spread. If you tell someone that they are under attack, that someone they already distrust is their enemy, it goes straight to the lizard brain.
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I onde read a pluralistic article about this where he linked apaper that the backfiring effect was supposedly a fluke.
however, if he did change his mind, you would need wrong