Andrew Wakefield Spewing Anti-Vax Rhetoric

i'm always so confused as to how the very direct link between, let's say, a jenny mc carthy spewing anti vax rhetoric, or even like an andrew wakefield. Why have these people not gone to prison? i think of it this way, one of the greatest ways to hold somebody accountable is to expose them. I've always thought that if you could just shine a very bright light on the people who were creating the disinformation, like was done with the tobacco executives... wouldn't that help? And i think, i think we need a lot of oars pulled on this. We need to go after the creators. We needto go after the amplifiers