Are you in denial? Because it's not just anti-vaxxers and climate sceptics | Jonathan Freedland

To accept the facts about climate science without changing the way we live is also to deny realityIt's easy to laugh at the anti-vaccine movement, and this week they made it easier still. Hundreds of protesters tried to storm Television Centre in west London, apparently unaware that they were not at the headquarters of the BBC or its news operation - which they blame for brainwashing the British public - but at a building vacated by the corporation eight years ago and which now consists of luxury flats and daytime TV studios. If only they'd done their own research.Anti-vax firebreather Piers Corbyn was there, of course, unabashed by the recent undercover sting that showed him happy to take ?10,000 in cash from what he thought was an AstraZeneca shareholder, while agreeing that he would exempt their product from his rhetorical fire. (Corbyn has since said that the published video is misleading.) "We've got to take over these bastards," he said during this week's protest, while inside Loose Women were discussing the menopause. Continue reading...