Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is the tendency for humans to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
Beliefs Don’t Always Equal Reality
When humans learn new information that disproves a belief that they hold, two things are set into motion that are just the opposite of what we would hope.
How to Be an Intelligent Human
You are not going to change someone’s mind via social media. If we could, then we would no longer have humans who believe that Earth is flat. What does need to happen is the education of humans in the areas of confirmation bias, proper research, cognitive dissonance, Occam’s Razor, and how adopting new beliefs is better than sticking to beliefs that have been disproven or had no basis in fact to begin with.