Please Hip, usually you're very considerate. But such could be interpreted as straight ad-hominem attack and very offensive.
I realize that it could be misinterpreted as that, but please be assured that I posted out of consideration, and in the spirit of trying to help.
When I first developed the mental condition of generalized anxiety disorder with this strange conspiracy thinking, I was not even aware of it at the time; and I think it would have been very helpful if someone could have recognized what was going on in my mind, and made me aware of it.
Because I went through this condition myself, I tend to recognize in others. But sometimes people will not listen to what you have to say. I have friend who suffered the same thing: he was such a positive and energetic individual, but a few years after he caught my virus, his personality changed considerably, and he became very negative about the world, and saw conspiracy theories everywhere.
I had a feeling that his situation was in part to do with depression (several people had developed depression soon after catching my virus), so I once gently pointed out to him that he had been such a positive person a few years ago, but now was so negative, and I tactfully suggested that it might be some depression behind his negative stance.
But he just rejected my suggestion, saying to me "a few years ago, I never understood what was happing in the world, but now I realize what's really going on, and how bad the world is, so it's not me whose negative, it's the world". So he post rationalized his newly acquired negative mental state by saying it was the world's fault, not his.
But we all know that depressed people tend to see and focus on the negatives, whereas healthy people will usually mentally align to more the positive things.