How Should We Relate to Conspiracy Theorists?

The Problem of Other Minds

If you are a “normie,” conspiracy theory probably makes you think of people who are ungrounded in reality, paranoid, irrational.

If you are an edgy, counter-cultural, skeptical person, who is fundamentally suspicious of mainstream institutions and has an anti-authoritarian streak, perhaps conspiracy theory sounds overly harsh and demeaning, exclusionary…