Some of the posting is so willfully ignorant, so incredibly left of field that the reasonable conclusion is that it's a few trolls (paid-for or not, that's not

Some of the posting is so willfully ignorant, so incredibly left of field that the reasonable conclusion is that it's a few trolls (paid-for or not, that's not important) trying very hard to destabilise any normal discourse that might happen on the subject. It is this way with most global issues. That doesn't really detract from your point on antisocial personalities, sadly. Trolls are also bad people. Perhaps they will be less surprising to you.