anti-vaccination
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See also: antivaccination
Alternative forms
Etymology
From anti- + vaccination.
Adjective
anti-vaccination (not comparable)
- Opposing vaccines and vaccination.
- Synonyms: anti-vaccine, anti-vaxxing, (informal) anti-vax
- Antonym: pro-vaccination
- 2000 November, Lorne A Babiuk, “Vaccination: present realities and future prospects”, in Microbiology Australia, volume 21, number 5, The Australian Society for Microbiology, →ISSN, page 19:
- In addition to being anti-biotechnology, there are also many anti-vaccination groups active around the globe. Many of them are playing on society's trend to embrace zero risk on any technology. These groups capitalise on the internet and various rapid communication methods to spread the message in a very subtle and forceful way.
- 2018, Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S. Steel, When Ideology Trumps Science: Why We Question the Experts on Everything from Climate Change to Vaccinations, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 76:
- We argued above that provaccination advocates would be more likely to use scientific studies and evidence of VPDs when compared to antivaccination advocates. While we did not assess the types of information sources people use for this issue, those with high levels of belief in vaccinations would at least be more open to the scientific literature on this topic.
- 2019 December 10, Tess Lanzarotta, “How to beat anti-vaxxers at their own game”, in The Washington Post:
- This tactic should not be surprising given that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. served as a producer on “Vaxxed II.” A recent study found Kennedy’s anti-vaccination organization, the World Mercury Project, was one of two groups responsible for 54 percent of anti-vaccine advertisements on Facebook.
- 2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times:
- The study, which mapped the vaccine conversation on Facebook during the 2019 measles outbreak, found that there were nearly three times as many active anti-vaccination communities as pro-vaccination communities. In addition, they found that while pro-vaccine pages tended to have more followers, anti-vaccine pages were faster-growing.
Related terms
Translations
anti-vax — see anti-vax
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