A fork of Rural Dictionary
Anti-vaxxers are people who believe vaccines are dangerous and actually give you the disease they are fighting off or just believe vaccines are dangerous in general. The first reason why anti-vaxxers started thinking like this is that a FRAUDULENT doctor claimed there was a link between MMR and Autism, from an experiment between 12 children. That doctor has been fired. There have now been studies of over 1,000,000 children and there has been no link between MMR and Autism...
Anti-vaxxers are not smart people
Someone who discounts scientifically valid medical research pertaining to vaccines in favor of data produced by a discredited researcher.
The anti-vaxxer movement has negatively impacted herd immunity and resulted in outbreaks of presentable diseases.
Noun: A sub-cult of anti-science, Google researchers that, when gathered in groups, have the innate ability to reduce their collective IQ to a level proportional to the inverse of the collective sum. Also usually have a strange obsession with marmot feces and believe it will protect them from contracting Autism during their adult lives since the practice of rolling around in it has been anecdotally linked with their ability to not contract autism as adults.
Person 1: Why are those people rolling around in marmot poo? Person 2: Oh those are just anti-vaxxers.
a person who opposes vaccination/immunization, claiming that the practice is harmful. the term typically carries a derogatory connotation, implying both science illiteracy and a failure to think critically.
We can thank the anti-vaxxers and their ill-informed propaganda for the resurgence in measles and other preventable diseases in the 21st century.
Someone who does not know what the definition of "research" is, has a Google phd, is anti-science or lacks the critical thinking skills to determine real science from pseudoscience, and parrots other people's ill-informed conclusions about vaccination. .
There are no intelligent, well-educated people that are also anti-vaxxers
People who want to bring back the good old days and deadly diseases.
Sam missed the days when everyome got polio. So, to get back to that, he became an anti-vaxxer.
Someone who thinks searching Google and reading blogs provides a better education than years of medical school, studying for board exams, and medical practice.
Judy is an anti-vaxxer and thinks she knows more about vaccines than a pediatrician.