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List Of Anti-vaccination Groups
A list of groups who are anti-vaccine, vaccine-critical, or vaccine hesitant. Global * White Rose (disinformation group) * World Chiropractic Alliance Europe Austria * Democratic – Neutral – Authentic * MFG Austria – People Freedom Fundamental Rights Denmark * Freedom List Finland * Crystal Party * Power Belongs to the People * Freedom Alliance (Finland) France * National League for Liberty in Vaccination Germany * Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany * WiR2020 Greece *Free People Hungary * Normális Élet Pártja Iceland * Responsible Future Italy * 3V Movement * Vita *ENZIAN-Südtirol Netherlands * List30 Slovenia * Resni.ca Turkey * New Welfare Party * Party of Life without Imposition United Kingdom * Humanitarian League (historical) * JABS * Let London Live *National Anti-Vaccination League (historical) * Pioneer Club (historical) North America Canada * Vaccine Choice Canada * Free Party Canada United States * Anti-Vaccination League of America * Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-vaccine Activism
Anti-vaccine activism, which collectively constitutes the "anti-vax" movement, is a set of organized activities expressing opposition to vaccination, and these collaborating networks have often sought to increase vaccine hesitancy by disseminating vaccine misinformation and/or forms of active disinformation. As a social movement, it has utilized multiple tools both within traditional news media and also through various forms of online communication. Activists have primarily (though far from entirely) focused on issues surrounding children, with vaccination of the young receiving pushback, and they have sought to expand beyond niche subgroups into national political debates. Ideas that would eventually coalesce into anti-vaccine activism have existed for longer than vaccines themselves. Various myths and conspiracy theories (alongside outright disinformation and misinformation) have been spread by the anti-vaccination movement and fringe doctors. These have been spread in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List30
Heart for Freedom (, ), formerly known as List30 (), is a political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded on 17 June 2021 and emerged from the blank list 30 during the 2021 House of Representatives elections when it split from . The party mainly profiled itself through its criticism of Dutch COVID-19 policy. History Foundation The party emerged from a split of the political party Free and Social Netherlands (VSN), founded in September 2020. The split arose after Anna Zeven was deregistered from the Chamber of Commerce by party leader Bas Filippini. By her own admission, Zeven was not informed of this, which later turned out not to be true. Filippini, initiator of VSN, ultimately did not agree with the candidacy of conspiracy thinker Willem Engel proposed by Zeven in the House of Representatives elections of 17 March 2021 and announced on 17 January 2021 that Engel was no longer on the electoral list. This led to an internal conflict. After Filippini had arranged the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of American Physicians And Surgeons
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a Conservatism in the United States, politically conservative non-profit association that promotes conspiracy theories and Pseudoscience, medical misinformation, such as HIV/AIDS denialism, the abortion–breast cancer hypothesis, and Causes of autism#Vaccines, vaccine and autism connections, through its official publication, the ''Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons''. The association was founded in 1943 to oppose a government attempt to nationalize health care. The group has included notable members, including American Republican politicians Ron Paul, Rand Paul and Tom Price (American politician), Tom Price. History During the winter of 1943, the medical committee of Lake County, Indiana and the conservative National Physicians Committee opposed the newly proposed Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill, that if passed, would provide government health care for most U.S. citizens. The American Medical Association (AMA) had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Vaccination Society Of America
Anti-Vaccination Society of America opposed compulsory smallpox vaccination from the final decades of the 19th century through the 1910s. It was founded in 1879 after a visit to the United States by William Tebb. It published a periodical called ''Vaccination''. Members *William Tebb (1830–1917) inspired the organization. *L.H. Piehn of Nora Springs, Iowa. He was a banker and his daughter died of sepsis after the smallpox vaccine in 1894. * Montague Leverson of New York City. *Weyprecht of New York City in 1895. *Frank D. Blue of Terre Haute, Indiana was secretary in 1899. *Porter F. Cope (1869–1950) was the secretary. *E. C. Townsend of New York City was assistant secretary for the Eastern States. He was the publisher of ''Anti-Vaccination News''. See also * Anti-Vaccination League of America * National Anti-Vaccination League The National Anti-Vaccination League (NAVL) was a British anti-vaccination organization that was formed in 1896 from earlier smaller organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Vaccination League Of America
Charles Michael Higgins (October 4, 1854 – October 21, 1929) was an Irish-American ink manufacturer and anti-vaccinationist. Biography Higgins was born in County Leitrim, Ireland. He moved to Brooklyn at the age of six. Higgins was the inventor of Higgins American India Ink. He operated the Charles M. Higgins Company to manufacture the drawing ink he invented. Higgins married Alexandra Fransioli in 1899 and they had three children. He was a founding member of the Kings County Historical Society. He opposed vaccination and was also an anti-vivisectionist. Anti-Vaccination League of America Higgins was the co-founder and treasurer of the Anti-Vaccination League of America. The League was created in 1908 by Higgins and industrialist John Pitcairn.Walloch, Karen L. (2015). ''The Antivaccine Heresy: Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States''. University of Rochester Press. pp. 4–5. Its anti-vaccination campaigns focused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Party Canada
Free Party Canada () was a minor federal political party in Canada that also existed provincially in Quebec as a provincial and municipal party. It was led by Michel Leclerc, advocated for direct democracy and lower taxes, and promoted vaccine hesitancy. History In 2016, the party registered provincially in Quebec as ("Free Party Saint-Sauveur") and ran in local elections in Saint-Sauveur, as well as in the 2017 by-election for Gouin. Its eight candidates in the 2018 Quebec general election received a total of 1,618 votes. Registered federally on September 30, 2020, its first federal campaign was for the 2020 Toronto Centre federal by-election. 2021 election The party ran 59 candidates in the 2021 Canadian federal election, most of them in Quebec or in Francophone areas of New Brunswick and Ontario, garnering over 47,000 votes. Its platform attracted notice for its opposition to mandated COVID vaccination and vaccination passports, and some candidates had been active i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaccine Choice Canada
Vaccine Choice Canada (VCC) is Canada's main anti-vaccination group. It was founded in 1986 under the name Association for Vaccine Damaged Children, became the Vaccination Risk Awareness Network in 1994 and adopted its current name in 2014. The group has been contributing to vaccine hesitancy in Canada, encouraging citizens to forgo immunization and legislators to support anti-vaccine regulations and legislation. Vaccine hesitancy VCC spreads the discredited hypothesis that vaccination causes autism and denies that the introduction of vaccines led to a decline of the targeted diseases. They blame vaccination for a variety of ailments, including autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD, allergies, and asthma. The group argues incorrectly that a vaccine against COVID-19 is unnecessary. Late in the pandemic, it still repeated the discredited myth that the pandemic is no more severe than the flu. Although a small fraction of vaccine doses provoke serious adverse rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer Club (women's Club)
The Pioneer Club was a progressive women's club founded in Regent Street, London, in 1892 by the social worker and temperance activist Emily Massingberd. "It was strongly associated with the ' higher thought' and such associated issues of the 'New Morality' of the late nineteenth century as theosophy, anti-vivisection, anti-vaccination and above all feminism." The club was named after Walt Whitman's poem ' Pioneers! O Pioneers!', lines from which were inscribed on a glass screen in the building's hall: We the route for travel clearing Pioneers, O Pioneers! All the hands of comrades clasping Pioneers, O Pioneers! One of the most popular of the Women's Clubs established in London in the late 19th century by 1895 membership exceeded 300. It began in Regent Street but soon moved to 22 Cork Street. Its permanent site was at 22 Bruton Street Bruton Street is a street in London's Mayfair district. Queen Elizabeth II was born there, and the fashion designer Norman Hartnell lived t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Anti-Vaccination League
The National Anti-Vaccination League (NAVL) was a British anti-vaccination organization that was formed in 1896 from earlier smaller organizations. Historically, the League had opposed compulsory vaccination, particularly against smallpox. It was part of a wider anti-vaccinationist movement, arguing that vaccination did more harm than good. History Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League The National Anti-Vaccination League grew from earlier smaller organizations in London, originally under the title Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League (ACVL) in response to the government making smallpox vaccination compulsory. The Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League was founded by Richard Butler Gibbs at Finsbury in 1866.Durbach, Nadja. (2005). ''Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907''. Duke University Press. p. 38. Members included Richard's brother George Sleight Gibbs and his cousin John Gibbs, author of the first anti-vaccination pamphlet. The Anti-Compulsory Vac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let London Live
Piers Richard Corbyn (born 10 March 1947) is a British weather forecaster, anti-vaccine activist, conspiracy theorist, and former politician. Corbyn was born in Wiltshire and raised in Shropshire wherein he attended Adams' Grammar School. He was awarded a first class BSc degree in physics from Imperial College London in 1968 and a postgraduate MSc in astrophysics from Queen Mary College, University of London, in 1981. Corbyn was a member of the Labour Party and served as a councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 1986 to 1990. He is the elder brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, leaving Labour in 2003 due to his opposition to the Iraq War. Corbyn ran a weather monitoring company called WeatherAction in the 1990s and gained some prominence in the media for his predictions and, later more so, for his rejection of the scientific consensus on climate change. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, he was a prominent proponent of conspiracy theories. He descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JABS
JABS (short for Justice, Awareness and Basic Support) is a British pressure group launched in Wigan in January 1994. Beginning as a support group for the parents of children they claim became ill after the MMR vaccine (which they claim gave their children epilepsy, brain damage or autism – see: MMR vaccine and autism), the group is currently against all forms of vaccination. Beginnings The group began as a support group after Jackie Fletcher placed an advert in the newspaper to find parents whose children became ill after their first MMR vaccine after her child was diagnosed with epilepsy ten days after he received an MMR vaccination. According to a pro-JABS article published by ''Private Eye'', "30 families from a small community responded" originally, and by 2002 over two thousand families had been in contact. Membership and organisation JABS members are parents of children who allegedly became ill after vaccination, particularly MMR, which they initially claimed to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanitarian League
The Humanitarian League was a British radical advocacy group formed by Henry S. Salt and others to promote the principle that it is wrong to inflict avoidable suffering on any sentient being. It was based in London and operated between 1891 and 1919. Background Howard Williams, the author of '' The Ethics of Diet'' (1883), a history of vegetarianism, proposed in the book the concept of a "humane society with a wider scope than any previously existing body". William's idea was developed by fellow writer and advocate, Henry S. Salt, in an 1889 article on humanitarianism. History The Humanitarian League was formed by Henry S. Salt, who was also the General Secretary and Editor. Other founding members included Edward Maitland, Ernest Bell (Chairman), Howard Williams, Kenneth Romanes and Alice Lewis (Treasurer). The League's inaugural meeting, in 1891, was held at the house of Alice Lewis, 14 Park Square, London, who remained Treasurer for the League's existence. Many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
