The article does little to shed light on the Aussie version of dimwittedness, where the antivaxers appear to accept the science of climate change while denying the science of epidemiology. Perhaps the Aussie antivaxers are mere halfwits, while their American counterparts are the full blown dimwits?

On either continent, the idiocy of rejecting news sources as fake, accepting the rumor mill that is Facebook as a reliable resource and cloaking themselves in the hubris of claiming to know better than the consensus of experts, has resulted in the spread of a different type of virus: the Dunning-Kruger effect, on a mass scale—an entire segment of the voting public is simply too stupid to realize how stupid they actually are!