COVID-19: Waterstones and Amazon urged to add warning tags as anti-vaccination book sales surge
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Anti-vaccination books are being sold on Amazon and the websites of Waterstones and Foyles leading to calls for warnings to be added in the hope it will help combat the spreading of misinformation.
Top-selling anti-vax books on Amazon include Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe And Effective Is Lying, and Vaccine-nation: Poisoning The Population, One Shot At A Time.
There has been a jump in reviews and ratings on books like these as sales have rocketed since the start of the pandemic.
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