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.

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Vaccine critics

• Neil Z. Miller
• Alan Cantwell
• Edward Yazbak
• Alan Cantwell
• Glen Dettman
• Barbara Loe Fisher
• Archie Kalokerinos

Anti-vaccinationists

• Gerhard Buchwald
• Robert S. Mendelsohn
• Viera Scheibner
• Beddow Bayly
• Hans Rüesch
• Harris Coulter

Early anti-vaccinationists (c. 1850-1910)

• Charles Creighton
• William Tebb
• William Job Collins
• Edgar Crookshank
• Walter Hadwen
• Charles Creighton
• National Anti-Vaccination League

Note

1. ^ Durbach, Nadja (2005). Bodily matters: The anti-vaccination movement in England, 1853-1907. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822334127, ISBN 0822334232.