Abstract

LOPEZ SANTAMARIA, Miguel Ángel. Los movimientos antivacunacion y su presencia en internet. Ene. [online]. 2015, vol.9, n.3. ISSN 1988-348X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1988-348X2015000300011.

The anti-vaccination movements are associations of people who oppose vaccination because reasons. These groups use the Internet as a distribution channel for their ideas.This work's objective is to analyze the contents and arguments that these groups expose in their web pages. Most of the websites analyzed contains information which affirm that vaccines are the cause of disease and that have toxic elements in its composition. There are a huge number of rigorous scientific studies which have shown that immunizations are not harmful to people's health.

Keywords : Anti-vaccine websites; Internet; Vaccine opposition.