quarantine 'em

Hyphenated terms tend to drop hyphens over time anyway so let's just skip right to it. Otherwise, excuse me while I check my e-mail for the third time to-day.

It's spelled anti-emetics ;)

Aunt Irma Metics

"Antimemetix", like the conceptual inverse of some brand of cassette tape

A direct joint has a flair of '80's bureaucracy - some not really clever clerk named the division that, because it deals with a Thing that is opposite to Another Thing. That same 80's clerk would add the hyphen if he'd imply the division in itself is in opposition to a Thing.

I think in many fields, it would start with the hyphen, and then lose it as it became more commonplace. inter-net? This example makes following that model a little harder

anti meme... [tics]

Hyphens are pretentious