vaccine denial
Refusing preventive shots
Vaccine denial is the rejection of established scientific evidence supporting vaccine safety and effectiveness.
It ranges from hesitancy about specific vaccines to wholesale rejection of vaccination as a medical practice.
Vaccine denial often involves conspiracy theories about pharmaceutical companies, government cover-ups, or discredited claims linking vaccines to conditions like autism.
Vaccine denial has contributed to outbreaks of measles in communities with low vaccination rates.
- antivaxOpposed to immunizations
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
- fake newsIntentionally deceptive media content
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
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- disinformationdisinformation, misinformation, misinformation campaigns, fake news, propaganda
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