Going against the flow: Motivations of professionals with critical views on vaccination

T he controversy over vaccines has persisted since their introduction in the eighteenth century. While many studies have addressed concerns and motivations of general population regarding hesitation resistance to vaccination (especially parents, concerning routine childhood immunization), present study was designed examine this issue among professionals from a victimological perspective, thus its uniqueness. Study participants were researchers practitioners involved with who hold critical position on ways dealing what they perceived as suppression dissent field vaccination. The identified our referred ethical aspects professional obligation patients, patient rights, freedom choice, lack trust medical establishment. also themselves victims suppressive tactics due position, which responded two contrasting ways: continuing while insisting right voices heard or abandoning public reactions repercussions faced. article discusses implications these findings context scientific integrity, violation democratic values, speech, impact public?s science medicine.