Although the article was later retracted, and Wakefield was stripped of his medical license due to his unethical and fabricated research, his ideas persist and continue to inform discussions of vaccines a quarter-century later. This chapter traces his influence as it spread globally and into online...
The reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated has been a growing problem in the U.S. long before the pandemic started. Medical experts point to a long-debunked study published by British researchers in 1998 linking measles vaccines to autism in children. That only emboldened anti-vaxxers, a group...
Was this to make sure we all know what happens when the bearers of the mighty pen and power of corporate media declare vaccine-concerned doctors to be “‘anti-vaxxers”? Despite myself I had to laugh when I read Andrew Wakefield described by Deer’s book reviewer as “one of the darke...
Our study also demonstrated that the inter-cluster replies of anti-vaxxers conveyed higher toxicity and negative sentiment. Previous research on effective vaccine narratives has illustrated that texts with strong emotionality were more likely to leave a greater impression on receivers than texts with a ...
together with another antivaxer,Yehuda Schoenfeld,they once had toretract a paperon the alleged neurotoxicity of aluminium adjuvant in vaccines, from the Elsevier journalVaccine. The authors then simply republished the retracted masterpiece again in another journal,Immunologic Research,published by Springe...
Aggressive behaviour of anti-vaxxers and their toxic replies in English and Japanese Article Open access 05 July 2022 Impacts of message sensation value and message appeal on viewer responses to YouTube anti-bullying videos Article Open access 24 March 2025 Introduction In the face of pandemics...
Instagram might feed an account that followed a QAnon conspiracy site further posts from, say, white nationalists or anti-vaxxers. “You continue to allow things to disintegrate because of the seamless intermingling of misinformation and information on your platforms,” Ahmed, the center’s CEO,...
Asking anti-vaxxers why they would not take the vaccine Let us be clear. What started all this anti-vaxxing dogma? What prompted all these vaccination worries and false claims? Those worries did not come from one opinion store. I asked several anti-vaxxers why they would say no to the va...
A possible explanation is that anti-vaxxers have found their counterparts more in the respective governments that imposed vaccinations and restrictions during the pandemic rather than in their fellow citizens.Footnote 4 Regarding the data on COVID-19 vaccinations in early 2022, (right panel of Fig....
Anti-Vaccination Definition:Anti-Vaccination, also known as Anti-Vax is the belief that vaccines are dangerous or cause more problems than benefits. Some common myths cited by anti-Vaxxers is that vaccines cause Autism, that they contain dangerous toxins such as formaldehyde, mercury, or aluminum,...