When anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield was confronted with the consequences of misinforming the Somali immigrants in Minnesota, he told a Washington Post reporter “I don’t feel responsible at all.” One wonders whether we’ll be hearing those words from climate deniers in the coming years.

Why should they feel responsible? If people are idiots who are willing to believe any bullshit they get fed, it's only natural for others to manipulate them.

The anti-vaxxer movement, climate change denialism, and the like, will be resolved in due time by Darwinian mechanisms, whether people get smarter about them or not. That's the beauty of reality, it doesn't give a crap whether people believe it or not.