Vaccine critic
Vaccine critic is a poorly defined concept describing people including:
- A penumbra of those who are not entirely anti-vaccinationist but campaign to prevent or avoid some aspect of vaccination such as a single component of a particular vaccine for one or more specific reasons applying only to that component
- Anti-vaccinationists (those opposed to all vaccination) who describe themselves as critics.
The concept can be identified from viewing various of the anti-vaccination websites and is referred to in a Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2005) review describing the differences between contemporary anti-vaccination campaigns and those before 1907 [1].
Vaccine critics should be distinguishable from anti-vaccinationists by being in favour of some specific immunisations for some specific people in some specific circumstances, and explaining those clearly.
Vaccine critics
Anti-vaccinationists
- National Anti-Vaccination League
- Gerhard Buchwald
- Robert S. Mendelsohn
- Viera Scheibner
- Charles Creighton
- Beddow Bayly
- Hans Rüesch
Note
- ↑ Durbach, Nadja (2005). Bodily matters: The anti-vaccination movement in England, 1853-1907. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822334127, ISBN 0822334232.