Antivax smackdown, Albietz edition

I've written about my friend Dr. Joe Albietz before: he's a pediatrician who saves lives for a living. He's also a skeptic and a really good one; he was the brains and brawn behind the very successful vaccine drive we held at TAM 7 that will help prevent 500 kids in Las Vegas from contracting dangerous diseases. Joe now writes at Science Based Medicine, and for his first article he tears to tiny little shreds a claim that the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine is dangerous, a very wrong statement being spread by Dr. Joseph Mercola, an alt-med promoter who sells "natural" remedies as an alternative to vaccinations. With all this antivax nonsense going around, I wonder how sales are doing for him? Anyway, Joe's article is lengthy, and worth every word of it. He takes Mercola's claims and shows just where he's wrong. In some cases, Mercola's errors are so ...