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Table 3 Recurring arguments on websites with an adverse attitude to seasonal/H1N1 flu vaccine

From: How has the flu virus infected the Web? 2010 influenza and vaccine information available on the Internet

Website

Vaccine is dangerous

Vaccine is useless

Economic Interests; political control

Public ignorance

Inefficiency of traditional medicine; promoting alternative medicine

Flu is not a serious problem

Enlight- ened physician

Ethical reasons

Bizarre theories

 

Adverse effects

Toxic consti- tuents

        

Jeffreywarber.com

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

 

Drtenpenny.org

X

X

X

X

X

X

 

X

  

Thinktwice.com

X

 

X

 

X

     

Whale.org

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

  

X

Vaccinetruh.org

X

X

X

X

      

Angelfire.com

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

  

Naturalnews.com

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Novaccine.com

X

X

X

       

I-sis.org

X

X

 

X