Many of the comments in the comments section seem to be from just a couple of people and they may be persistently posting because people are responding and feeding them with attention. They want to goad people into responding and it's working, so they're doing more of it and they're taking over the comments section.
I think it's best to ignore trolls and idiots. It's easily possible to address their arguments without hitting the 'reply' button to their message or without addressing them by name.
They're just stick-poking kids. It's not possible to convince them of anything and even if it was, they'd never lose face and admit it. We should ignore them completely and just say the important, serious things that need to be said.
Agree.
Respond to any points worth responding to, correct any important factual errors (preferably with a reference or two to back your claim).
But don't respond to them directly or even acknowledge their existence.
These people are obnoxious narcissistic immature brats, who have no intention at all of engaging in an honest, open minded, evidence based discussion, and they not worth wasting your precious time & energy on.
They are doing it for no other reason to feel important, to feel like they can influence other people. Their particular psychopathology is that they can't do it in a good productive way, so they they do it in a dirty destructive way by trying to drag the rest of us down into their psychological & ethical cesspit.
Don't fall for it. Rise above it. Just ignore them.
Once they realise they are not getting the desired responses, they will either get bored and move on, or they will try to escalate the situation by making ever more ludicrous, outrageous, and provocative statements.
Either way, just keep ignoring them.