Term:Anti-vaxxer
Related terms
(believes in) big pharma conspiracy, (does not believe in) COVID-19 pandemic existence, (is against) coronavirus vaccine, (calls others) covidiots==Normative== The concept is absent from the corpus.
Research
Definition/description
Taken as a whole, the research identifies anti-vaxxer and members of online communities favouring conspiracy theories as sources or propagators of misinformation, with discussions tending to revolve around rhetorical and personal arguments that induce negative emotions (fear, anger, sadness).
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619305465?via%3Dihub
Examples
Given the dangers of such anti-vaxxer narratives, the default would understandably be to dismiss such quackery and restate the science.
Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30427-X/fulltext
Collocations
- anti-vaxxer movement
- anti-vaxxer narratives
- to identify anti-vaxxer
Keyness
>1000
Note
There are only 5 results in total in the concordance search for “anti-vaxxer”.
Press
Variants and synonyms
- anti-vax
- anti-vaxx
Description
Anti-vaxxers who refuse COVID-19 jab could be banned from pubs, restaurants or their workplace.
Examples
Boris Johnson says anti-vaxxers 'totally wrong in their approach'.
Collocations
- angry anti-vaxxers
- anti-vax protestors
- anti-vax sentiment
- anti-vax trolls
- anti-vax group
- anti-vax messages
- anti-vax campaign
- anti-vaxx protest
- anti-vaxx messages
- anti-vaxx gropus
Keyness
- anti-vaxxer: 153
- anti-vax: 158
- anti-vaxx: 401
Note
With the exception of "anti-vax group" (3 occurrences) and "anti-vaxx messages" (2 occurrences), all other collocations listed have one occurrence each only.
Comments
Description
Something to keep in mind is that not everyone who is an anti-vaxxer is against vaccines, per se.
Source: unknown
Examples
The majority have had enough of you anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists spouting nonsense.
Collocations
- determined anti-vaxxer
Keyness
36