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637 I spent twenty years trying to change my mother’s mind about things she was factually incorrect about and one day I stopped — not because I gave up, but because I finally understood that her certainty was never actually about the facts

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Sarah Mitchell @ Silicon Canals · 03/06/2026 06:45 EDT

I spent twenty years trying to change my mother’s mind about things she was factually incorrect about and one day I stopped — not because I gave up, but because I finally understood that her certainty was never actually about the facts

After two decades of bringing peer-reviewed studies to every family dinner, I finally understood why my mother's conspiracy theories were bulletproof: they were never about facts at all, but about something I'd been too blind to see.

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