Facts can't win.

If this guy is right, and facts can't win over conspiratorial thinking, we're all pretty much fucked in the ear.

Why facts won’t demolish the conspiracy theories | spiked

Sometimes it appears as if Western societies have regressed, adopting a medieval attitude towards calamitous acts. Back in the Dark Ages, people regarded accidents, disasters and other acts of misfortune as the work of hidden forces. Accidents did not happen, apparently – they were intentionally caused, either by divine or malevolent forces. Misdeeds were often said to have been caused by people who had been manipulated by ‘evil forces’.