anti-vaccine en · ADJ
Etymology
From anti- + vaccine.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Opposing vaccines and vaccination.
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.
2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2020:A new book defending vaccines, written by a doctor infuriated at the claim that they cause autism, is galvanizing a backlash against the antivaccine movement in the United States.
2009 January 13, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2019:Donald Trump’s habit of projecting his own failings onto his adversaries reached a new level of absurdity on Labor Day, when he attacked the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for “reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric” and accused them of a position that “undermines science.”
2020 September 8, Michael Hiltzik, “Column: Trump attacks Biden and Harris as anti-vaccine, but he’s the one with the anti-vaxx record”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2020: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.
2019 December 10, Tess Lanzarotta, “How to beat anti-vaxxers at their own game”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| antivaccine | alternative | lexicographic |