Anti-vaxxerism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Political and/or philosophical opposition to vaccination. uncountable
"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."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From anti-vaxxer + -ism.
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