" I don't want to make them seem legitimate"

You couldn't if you tried.  And even if that weren't true: what chance do you have of convincing anyone who believes such outrageous falsehoods?

I should mention that I'm a huge fan of conspiracies... both the likely ones and the silly ones.

Wow...that's just...how?  Are these people so self absorbed and so simple minded that they can't fathom such a thing can happen? That it's easier to believe a story involving a large number of players, moving parts, scripts, rehearsals, and choreography to pull it off than the possibility that a single individual or a small group went to a public place and shot it up without thinking about the consequences? Who would be willing to pay people for such an elaborate event?  Who would actually accept a job to participate in such a stunt?  Is it a reasonable thought to want people who think this was a hoax to be shot as well?  Yeah, Alex Jones, how about you go to south Florida and tell the families of the victims their children aren't real.  It's easy to sit on your ass in a totally different state and say it didn't happen because you weren't shot yourself.  

Wow...This made me so mad.  Not you, David, but the inane drivel public figures can come up with I imagine to help them sleep at night. Coincidentally, I attended this school in the 90s.  It's a strange feeling to learn about a place from your childhood had just fallen victim to a mass shooting.

Committed conspiracy theorists would see everything as evidence of the conspiracy. I saw flat earthers saying the starmen video is evidence for their conspiracy. 
Debunk some right wing conspiracies, would be fun to watch.

It is a good ethical question and I think it is great you think about it. I also think it is a good idea to have a discussion about it. 

Here are my two cents:

There are believers and disbelievers and there is another group: people who don't know yet. I think they are the important group and for them it is helpful to go into details. I understand it means you get maybe responses from believers and then it seems to be an unending circle. I think you can tackle that by being rational and friendly all the time, even if you think it is utter nonsens that is proclaimed. Correct and rational behaviour beams knowledge and will help making your point.

Another reason to say yes is because of words. Not everybody is great with words, you are. So by making videos debunking conspiracy theories you are actively helping people finding words to argue and creating an understandable opinion.

Now to be mean, there are also people who believe what they hear the most. They probably don't realise that for themselves but it creates the situation that your voice matters because of numbers of people speaking out.

Its pretty simple are you a Red pill or a Blue pill. I think the whole thing is fucked up. It wont matter when the ring of fire goes up who is going to care.

First, I think as a reporter you report on facts and put out the story regardless if it isn’t popular or sexy or interesting because it’s just what journalist do unlike let’s say a tabloid writer that only deals with hot stories. I don’t think the fact it won’t change the opinion of many of the people should really be a factor. 
Second, I think there are still a lot of people that don’t believe it but may think a certain detail is true that may not be. Also, there are people like my dad that voted for Trump but isn’t part of his base and will get some news from Fox News or Facebook that isn’t factual but they don’t realize it. My dad and I will occasionally discuss politics and then he will throw out a fake propaganda story he thought was true and I will pull out my iPad and show him the actual facts and how certain things are being spun out of context to draw an incorrect conclusion.

It’s worth doing a video debunking point by point these conspiracies because while it may not change the mind of the crazy infowar viewer, there are still a lot of people that may not be big into politics and only heard about events in passing or a shared Facebook post and are believing in the conspiracy only because that’s all they heard about it and didn’t take the time  to dig further.

I think it's a good thing people are asking questions, no matter what the scenario is.

I think the greatest conspiracy of all time is the invention of the word conspiracy... Think about it. You can discredit anything by calling it a conspiracy...

You and Kulinski need to live debate more conservatives for my own personal amusement.

I thought "democratic" and "Democrats" were completely unrelated.

Whenever I try and bring up the 2 shooter discussion regarding sandy hook, I am immediately dismissed as a sandy hoax proponent.  Alex Jones and friends have a strange ability to cause skeptics or simply curious people to be demonized and generalized for doing nothing more than questioning the news.  We are given countless examples of why we should constantly question CNN and FOX and friends;  It is strange that AJ is able to make us look stupid for doing so.

There are suicide bombers in Europe, the middle East and Russia.
In the USA we have suicide gunners. 
There is the same lose of life.
Alex jones is a nutter, clearly...but that doesn't mean one can dismiss everything being brought up.
The FBI is known for creating agent provocateurs.
The CIA has a history of doing these types of operations in other nations, since the 50s.
The US Military has worked with the Press, throughout our history to manufacture wars.
While many of their theories are nuts,..that is no reason to dismiss the idea that some of the violence we witness these days might be connected.
The central bankers need a bailout, of a magnitude similar to their conditions before WWI and WWII. They have a proven track record of slaughtering millions and millions of human beings to make sure they profit another year. To NOT suspect they orchestrate false flag operations is naive.

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Wouldn't be funny if the right and left.. using those ambiguous terms finally see that they have been pulling the greatest conspiracy of all,
the left right dialectic is being seen by many now as the great distraction that it is....maybe they are the " crisis actors of political consciousness, in a frightful play...seducing those that believe in armed or unarmed protection, and enlightening others that this seemingly ridiculous play has gotten to the last  act and the curtain....is about to fall on believing that any law can have an effect on the human heart?.....except maybe the the un-law of Love?.....sound chezzy? 
If thats not it, Maybe....the only thing left then is to arm your self to the teeth...or be scared of the one that does....haven't we all seen a movie like that?....Personally, I don't like the ending...of that film. Let's call for a Script change, shall we?

Ps...I have heard that many with political power have tremendous  investment in gun and ammo stock...both left and right....the NRA is the problem?....lol

Don't bother, it's a mental disorder. You'll never be able to convince them. Just focus on your audience.

The hope is some strong form of therapy is developed in the future that'll allow such people to accept common sense, reason and evidence.

PS: Upvoting 1% to counter a downvote. Do note, my response here is one out of concern.

With Alex every crime is a false flag, I don't think he deserves any airtime.

I think pointing this out helps us stay alert of these types of things, like scam alerts. Sure, the people actually believing them may not reverse their beliefs, but there is benefit to the rest of us in knowing what is happening and the actual truth behind it.

I would say, don't bother.

Conspiracy theorists have no interest in logic. You'll never convince them otherwise, whether it be Flat Earthers or those who don't believe the Sandy Hook tragedy happened.

I have got to say..

The left seem to be a bunch of emotional, brain dead zombies that do anything the TV asks them to.

I can give HUNDREDS of examples where people on the left have no real information, ask them questions and they will spit and fart at you.

EVERY SINGLE PERSON on the right has information. That's why they are on the right, they know what's going on.

I would love to run a test..

Ask people on the left some questions. Whats the budget, whats the deficit.. who runs the federal reserve.

Without doubt, without fail, they will never have the answer.

They are the sheeples.

I read an article recently.. can't remember where but it basically said a study suggested that people who support right wing politics are much more likely to share fake news.

Debunking isn't the term I would push to use to fight this kind of abuse of truth.  Providing the evidence why these people are wrong, point out their conflicts of interest, showing others how corrupt they are is definitely worth doing.  But addressing them is not advised.  That's what they want, your attention.  Use your platform to put the truth out there davidpakman.

If you can debunk it you should.

Just live them be. They are just like that. If my memory is good, i remember him saying in the court that all that he does is an act that he puts up for entertainment. I used this was submitted through an affidavit in a divorce case.

I was thrown off during our last election the amount of mislabeling, black and white thinking, and quite frankly intense hate directed towards liberal leaning folk (and yes, i understand the extreme left may be guilty of same issue - perhaps). This is something that seems to go beyond typical American partisan politics. It almost feels like there has been a declaration of war made -  a propaganda war that eerily resembles the rise of Fascism in Europe in the 1920’s and 30’s.

  I never want to be caught by surprise again. I think it is important that people know what is being said, even on the fringes of both sides since extremes usually attract extremes and seem to bend into a full circle.  Perhaps if you have a weekly segment like your  hatriat mail - a segment that LIGHTLY informs us - we will be more prepared for the next wave of onslaughts that I sense may soon be approaching.