EU3D. Narrating from the Fringes. Science related Populism Referring to Europe

Within the project EU3D. Differentiation, Dominance Democracy is financed by the European Commission within the program Horizon 2020 (Societal Challenges 6: Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies) under Grant Agreement no. 822419 in research task 4.3 within Work Package 5 on EU reforms Kinga Sekerdej analysed proposals are statements published in Polish or English by 2 groups of actors: those expressing their discontent against vaccination policies and those protesting against 5G rollout.
There are 25 documents from the years 2017-2022. They have been searched through the policy topics of vaccinations and 5G and documents arguing against those policies were identified via snowballing and web-searching. They have been coded in relation to the perceived dominance they express. There are 3 main codes: 1. Instances of dominance, 2. Dominator (who dominates), 3. Dominated (who is dominated). Each principal code has a number of subcodes:
Instances of dominance: discrimination; need of choice; need of freedom; need of democracy; propaganda; breach of Nuremberg code; lack of transparency; illicit hierarchy; rights denial; exclusion; experiments on people; need of sovereignty; oppression; material deprivation.
Dominator: totalitarian regime; WHO; financial institutions; academics; EMA; government; foreign powers; Big Pharma.
Dominated: ordinary people, countries; Poles; independent scientists; decent doctors; national and EU bodies.