Sometimes I’ll just be like ‘you’re not a high school social studies teacher, you don’t need a works cited page. Either believe it or not.’ Other times I’ll point out their pattern of behavior and argument strategy before they even get to the final stage, where they say since it didn’t come from a reputable source it doesn’t count. They don’t seem to grasp all of their beliefs are being influenced by propaganda sources so of course any real news will seem strange to them. They’re interesting creatures.
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This happened to me recently with an otherwise very intelligent doctor friend from New York.
I gave him a bunch of data, he asked me where I got it from and I told him C-SPAN. He somehow managed to turn them into a biased outlet.
It still makes me laugh 3 weeks later.