Be Polite and Respectful
If your goals are to effectively communicate, then you need to be polite and you need to respect your friend.
People will push back when they feel they are being attacked. Regardless of the intentions of the person they are talking to, or the article they are reading, or the video they are watching, if they feel it denigrates them in any way then they are far less likely to actually consider the validity of what is being said.
Phil was a visitor to my Chemtrail debunking website ContrailScience.com who did not agree with this approach. Phil was very intelligent ... Read even more