Faced with the proliferation of rumors in Mom and Dad's circle of friends, what should we do? Despite the difficulty of solving the problem, the guests actively gave advice.
The first point is "respect your parents, don't challenge your parents' worldview. Science writer Huang Yongming made the point that "a person firmly believes in this thing (rumor), very often it's not something that he can immediately accept if you put a contrary fact in front of him." "When you are debunking a rumor, you can't make the other person feel that you are challenging his worldview, you have to respect him, and make him feel that he goes to believe in this fact about you, and it won't be a challenge to his worldview, and in this case, he can be persuaded." This is the same view of many experts***. Science writer Yun Wuxin said, "The principle of equal communication must be adhered to. If you do not respect the reader, you will have no way to spread. Because if you scold him and condescendingly criticize him, he still won't believe you." If this is true for people in general, it should be even more so for parents. Zhu Yi, associate professor at the University of Agriculture, also said that many of today's popular science is called "in the face of popular science" "mandatory popular science", in fact, is not good, should be used "embracing popular science" in order to achieve results.
The second point, for the parents of the circle of friends, rumors should be focused. This is also the view put forward by Zhu Yi, associate professor at the University of Agriculture. "If the rumor is a big topic related to the country's economy and people's livelihood, we have to pay attention to it." In the opinion of Ma Guansheng, a professor at Peking University, the phenomenon of parents and elders believing in food incompatibility is inexorable, "There are rumors that you want to break it now is not easy because it is rooted in culture, such as permaculture exists in the whole social system. As generations grow up, and the scientific literacy of the new generation improves, these rumors may slowly disappear."
The third point is for mom and dad to get their sources from places they feel credible. This is Professor Ma Guansheng's advice, "Like if I go home and I have to tell my in-laws that eating this or that will be nutritious, and they don't believe me when I say it. If I take what is said in the column of the Beiqing Newspaper, I may believe it because I feel that that is more authoritative." Zhang Xinyan, senior editor of Ding Xiangyuan, agrees with this point of view, and it is important to give parents reliable sources, "such as the WeChat public number of a third-rate hospital, the content they push may be reliable." Zhang Guangyou, academic development manager of Ding Xiangyuan, even took this to the extreme, "I specifically asked an authoritative professor of hypertension to specifically go and hang out with them, and asked them to give me (my parents) a talk. It was the most effective because he was the most authoritative."
The fourth point is to make parents who are free from rumors become "opinion leaders" in the square dance community. This is Zhang Xinyan gave "advanced advice". Because elders have their own social circle. In the view of Cai Jing, associate professor at the Communication University of China, square dance community is one of the most spread food and drug medical rumors, this social circle for them is the most credible. If you can get your parents' circle of friends free of rumors, then please encourage them to go to the square dance community to spread the correct information, so that other groups of elderly people will not go to believe in the circle of friends food and health rumors.
How to "return a blue sky to the circle of friends of parents" can refer to the advice of experts. But the premise is to actively find the problem, and try to solve the problem.