...or something like that.
What is the actual, sanctioned-by-profesional-deprogrammers, step by step technique for disillusioning a person of a vested belief in a fundamentally bad idea? What is the protocol for turning a person around when they're removed from a cultish environment? Lawyers do it with juries, so how do I do it with my denialist friend?
Granted, I'm being lazy here by not using my own google-fu, but there are actual, proven "deprogramming" techniques out there, right?
For example, I was just listening to yet another discussion on the pod about how frustrating it is to deal with a person that is parroting talking points on global warming denial that were obviously cooked up by a PR team working for an oil company. As Steve said, "literally, dude, somebody in a back room thought that up to deceive you." And then they go on to give a smattering of basic, individual pieces of advice on things to do and not to do, as they have on many occasions.
I love you guys (on the podcast [and the forum too!]), but enough already! Just point me to a "sanctioned" step-by-step method that I can use already! I don't care if it's way more that a 12 step list, and I don't care if I have to read a whole book on the subject to get a detailed understanding of the steps, but there must be an actual process that works out there somewhere. Please, help me out here by recommending some reading on the subject at the very least, if you can't just point me to the resource after saying, "here this is how it's done."
I've always been of the opinion that people are far more simple that most of us like to think. I strongly suspect that the answer to this issue is probably more straight forward than we suspect. After all, this is what the science of psychology exists for, and this is why lawyers create argument maps.
What's the skeptic's argument map, or tool chest of maps?
Grr.
Came back to add this part: what are the top 10 argument maps (i.e. argument techniques) that lawyers all over the world have been using since the days of Archbishop Richard Whately, when he "gave probably the first form of an argument map"?