Friend believes chemtrails are triggering her son's asthma
A friend of mine is convinced that chemtrails are a primary cause of her son's asthma. This is a conspiracy theory that asserts governments are intentionally spraying chemicals out of airplanes for various unclear but nefarious reasons; see Wikipedia for more details.
Now I'm generally a live-and-let-live kind of guy, but her belief has reached the point where she won't take her son outside if chemtrail "monitoring" sites (which I won't dignify with a link) are indicating high chemtrail activity. I'm aware that this is going to be an uphill battle, but how do I get her to realize that chemtrails don't exist, and she's better off focusing on things that are actually known to trigger asthma?
(And oh, before somebody tells me to call CPS, she does fortunately also believe in modern medicine and uses inhalers etc for management.)
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Sadly you are unlikely to be able to change anyone's belief system. People believe all kinds of things. That's why they are called beliefs and not facts. Facts can and are proven. Beliefs can't and aren't. It's fortunate that she is managing the child's asthma in an appropriate manner. But as to changing her belief system as to the cause, that's not going to happen and it's fortunate that her belief isn't an immediate detriment to the health of the child. Whether it has an impact on the psychological health of the child remains to be seen, but I think that unlikely. My mother believed numerous things that I won't dignify by outlining here, but still ended up with a logical child.
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