A person dead set on listening to conspiracy theories about "Big Pharma" and ignoring all evidence to the contrary. Hallmarks of your typical anti-vaxxer include a staggeringly overinflated ego, pervasive selfishness, and insistence that they know more than real doctors/researchers because they read mommy blogs. An anti-vaxxer is also likely to view children as their property with no medical rights of their own (MY child, MY choice).

Someone who eschews legitimate scientific research and the advice of most of the medical community, putting unsuspecting others in harm's way.

Someone who rejects medical advice and scientific consensus about the efficacy and safety of vaccinations. Typically pairs with anti-government paranoia, anti-corporate sentiment, conspiracy theories, and the "appeal to nature" fallacy. Anti-vaxxers also spawned the movement of autism-trutherism, which claims that autism is caused as a response to adjuvants found in vaccinations.

While there are several common schools of thought among anti-vaxxer circles, specific claims will often change about why vaccinations are harmful. The anti-vaxxer will single out benign ingredients as being particularly toxic regardless of its concentration, or sometimes that inoculation itself is a sham practice and was never necessary. Many anti-vaxxers instead champion "natural immunity," which involves actually contracting the disease that is vaccinated against in hope that they will be less susceptible to it in the future.

Tactics often include the "argument from ignorance," the "appeal to nature," and "begging the question."

One who spent 20 minutes reading titles from a google search and now believes they are better educated than doctors who spend 10 years combined in medical school and residency. Synonym: Dunning-Kruger.

A particularly stupid brand of conspiracy theorist who believe watching a YouTube carries the same weight as a medical degree.

Person who don't believe vaccinations to be good for you.

An anti-vaxxer is a person who generally believes that vaccines are the main cause of diseases, they are generally middle-aged (45 to 65) moms who have one or more children.

These people will disharmonize (disagree) with every piece of scientific research thrown at them. They tend to get their facts from one or two websites or a paper that caused the MMR vaccine controversy
A controversy surrounding the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine started with the 1998 publication of a fraudulent research paper in The Lancet linking the vaccine to colitis and autism spectrum disorders

These people also believe that everyone is paid by big pharama and that every scientist in the world is a fraud paid by the government.

Anti-vax moms tend to spread their malarkey to their children, plus they don't vaccinate them, which is a big problem since then the child can be a carrier of an eradicated vaccine and then it could spread it to other people.

Sadly, some unvaccinated kids COULD die of measles at the age of 3, as shown by a study done in 1986, This shows how unknowledgeable they are and how they can put their children and others lives in danger.

1. A person who opposes vaccinations despite scientific evidence. Often associated with a fear that they cause autism.

2. Slang for someone who refuses to acknowledge obvious facts because they're contrary to their preconceptions.

A person who believes celebrities who cry about toxins in vaccines but still inject botox into their face know more about the entire body of scientific literature than the people who have performed *actual research*.