How to Build a Conversation With a Weet on Twitter

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"You're never going to de radicalize somebody by being snarky to them on twitter and then walking away," he says. "So that's my goal really, is not to kind of get them in one conversation where i talk over them ... I want to build a conversation where they want to talk to me again." 'I reach that part of theners o often feel like i've reached the area where nothing good is going to happen'

In this episode we sit down with Joey Rodman (@okiespacequeen), a science educator in Oklahoma whose recent Twitter thread about using a portable planetarium to reach out to flat earthers went viral thanks to their counterintuitive advice about how to discuss science denial and conspiracy theories with people who may have never interacted with a scientist before.

After years of on-the-ground, one-on-one conversations, Joey has developed a technique similar to those we've discussed on the show, including street epistemology, motivational interviewing, deep canvassing, and even the socratic method. It shares elements with all of these, but was developed in-person through conversations with people who met with Joey in their communities and home towns.

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