This is way harder than it sounds. You can ask the followup questions, but too often, they'll get answered. Contradictions, even pointed out, aren't contradicti

This is way harder than it sounds. You can ask the followup questions, but too often, they'll get answered. Contradictions, even pointed out, aren't contradictions to them. Hitting a contradiction in the first place requires that the person being questioned applies a consistent model to the questions, and most of the time, they're not. And getting over that requires admitting that they're wrong. When I am relating such conversations to my SO, it's often with the (modified) phrase "you can drown a horse in water, but you can't force it to drink."