anti-vaxxerism en · NOUN
Etymology
From anti-vaxxer + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Political and/or philosophical opposition to vaccination.
One of my experiences with anti-vaxxerism traces back to my spouse's concerns immediately after our first son was born (in 2010) that MMR vaccination might be linked to autism.
2022, Anthony DiMaggio, “Vaccine Hucksterism: VAERS and the War on Medical Science”, in CounterPunch:The idea is to guide, manipulate, and herd them into the corral of ring-wing extremism. Anti-vaxxerism has been a more current theme. In this case, people were unified and mobilised to attend protest rallies against state-ordered Corona measures.
2025, Thomas Klikauer, “Communicating Conspiracy Fantasies”, in Savaş Çoban, Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu, editors, Media, Populism and Hate Speech, page 148:Even worse than budget fetishism has been the cultural commitment of the government to climate denialism and do-nothingism. The right's commentariat peddles anti-science nonsense on a par with anti-vaxxerism and flat-Earth cosmology, eagerly lapped up by the mostly elderly readership of the conservative press.
2020 January 4, John Quiggin, “Bushfire smoke's impact will linger long after the air clears”, in The Canberra Times: