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Ok, that's rather uncharitable. Entering discussion in good faith is the only way. You have to initially presume it's skepticism, before making judgement.
Alex Jones with "turning the frogs gay" is a great example of mass hubris. Everyone took the piss, wrote about the sorry state of his mind and societies chosen conspiracy 'news' etc ... turns out he was right. Atrazine levels were elevated and frogs were switching gender.
miro_o-
Your time line on that story is bizarre. It's not some story be ploughed a lonely furrow on. Worries about that class of chemical aren't new and he was no trailblazer for them. He just grabbed at a shred of information he heard about and added it to his pile, along with the idea the UN is breeding children for organ transplant on Mars and a thousand other random things, some of the accidentally factual.
Intellectual rigour is important to me. I never dismiss a question out of hand, no matter how odd the source. But there's only so much time you can waste on the irrational thought patterns of the conspiracy freaks. They may occasionally ask an important question that nobody else has asked - but actually they do that very rarely. Genuine skeptical like old Fred Hoyle are not found in their ranks.
itsbruce
As I already said, skepticism is good. Flat-earther's and the like aren't skeptics - quite the reverse.