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The speaker is preparing a multi-modal presentation on whether conspiracy theories are beneficial for society. They argue against conspiracy theories, citing lack of statistics, association with poor health choices, and negative effects on personal relationships. They also present arguments in favor of conspiracy theories, such as forming new friendships and providing alternative information. The speaker struggles with their conciliatory position and seeks help in wording it to maintain their stance. They provide sources, including a scholarly essay and review, and express concerns about binary thinking in their conciliatory position. They request assistance with the conciliatory section. For my multi-modal presentation, I am discussing whether or not conspiracy theories are beneficial for society. So the claim I am attempting is that of the anti, which is essentially meant that conspiracy theories are imaginative theories that ultimately have little to no statistics to justify them and introduce society to beliefs that are unrealistic. And moving on to my supporting position, which is the anti. These are my arguments that I have to support my position. They include things such as the lack of statistics, the association with poor health choices in regards to conspiracies, including anxiety and depression, as well as people tending to develop a heightened sense of fear and denial in matters such as worldly domination. As well as the correlation to narcissism, paranoia, attachment issues, and personal relationships being negatively affected. Moving on to my opposing position, which is the pro that they are beneficial for society. These are my arguments. They can form new senses of friendships, relationships, within a niche group of people that all have a common ground, which would be the conspiracies. The matter that people that are spending a lot of their time researching these conspiracies have a fresh set of eyes, as well as information on important matters that government officials may not be necessarily paying as much keen attention to as the people that are researching these things. As well as the thrill of believing you can uncover a universally known conspiracy theory and people relaxing in the sense of their paranoias over large what-ifs and hows and anxieties over conspiracy theories, and if they are fearful of the unknown, that can tend to help people that do tend to indulge in conspiracy theories. Moving on to my conciliatory position. I have a lot of trouble with this as of now. These are some that I came up with. Including personality traits being affected either positively or negatively. I found a solution there being whether or not the impact of those can be tested by a conversation with someone over whether or not they'd be interested in discussing a conspiracy, as well as whether or not conspiracies are truly enlightening when it comes to real-time matters, or people just exuding false information into society. I found a solution there, which I thought was introducing new ideas towards a specific topic. It could ultimately be verified by posting them on things such as social media platforms and discussing to prevent false information being exposed. And those are just ideas I had for conciliatory. That's not set in stone as of now. Moving on to dialogic arguments that correlate. I have one argument correlating by opposing each other over the matter of conspiracy legitimacy, which is whether or not conspiracy theorist groups actually use evidence and statistics to back up their beliefs, or if they're neglecting world-known facts that have been proven. Another one would be the discussion of relationships surrounding those who are involved in studying conspiracy theories, and how they can either be detrimental or positively impacting to their relationships. Moving on, the types of sources I will be using. So I linked here a scholarly essay and a scholarly review. I thought they were two different ways to kind of show the different types of sources. So the scholarly essay, if you click on that, it's a huge essay written by professors and collegiate students. And it's supporting consequences of conspiracy theories, which is great in my in my defense, as that's what I'm arguing. And the review is an article reviewing conspiracy theories and communications, correlations, and consequences, which I found really interesting. And it's probably going to be what I'm focusing on when discussing my antithesis, the pro of they would be beneficial for society. So yeah, moving on to concerns and traps of binary thinking. My main concern truly is just the conciliatory position. I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to word that properly. I am having, I keep trying to figure out a good way to set myself up so that it's not me changing my position, because I don't want to change my position. But I'm having a hard time trying to find a solid way to come up with a solution while still remaining strong on my position of they are not beneficial, conspiracies are not beneficial for society, excuse me. And to follow up with binary thinking, I think the only binary thinking I'd be getting trapped into is correlating to my conciliatory since I'm having trouble figuring out how to word that in a way that works out for both positions with a common ground as well as me supporting my own position. So yeah, that would be great to possibly get help on the conciliatory there if possible. But that's my take and my topic and thank you.