#Mercola vitamin d video professional#

IвЂ™ll be charitable and assume he meant 2009 H1N1 is behaving like the average seasonal influenza. Saying something is вЂњsimply another fluвЂќ is nearly meaningless. Suffice to say every influenza strain has unique characteristics, some subtle (like the differences between seasonal strains from 2005-2007), some glaringly different (like the pandemic strains of 1918, 1957, and 1968, or the H5N1 вЂњbird fluвЂќ). One could do an entire post on just this single misleading claim.

вЂњNot unusually deadly.вЂќ Oh good, then we can expect only ~ 36,000 people to die from it this year! Why does that number not reassure me? Without further delay, letвЂ™s examine Mercola and SardiвЂ™s nine best reasons for you not to vaccinate your children against influenza this season:ДЎ.

You know, like that crappy art that you might expect to find on the wall at an hourly motel. There are so many mistakes, so much misinformation in so little space, itвЂ™s almost a work of art. Bill published вЂњ 18 reasons why you should not vaccinate your children against the flu this season.вЂќ Mercola chose his nine favorites (one would assume the nine best reasons), and re-posted it on. Joseph Mercola has recently posted an excerpt from an individual he evidently holds in high regard, Bill Sardi. I am not a fan, and have addressed his dross in the past. Unfortunately, it is also one of the more popular alternative medicine sites on the web and as such is uncommonly efficient at spreading misinformation. is a horrible chimera of tabloid journalism, late-night infomercials, and amateur pre-scientific medicine, and is the primary web presence of Joseph Mercola.

Unfortunately, it is also fertile ground for confusion, fear, and misinformation, and a playground for those who would exploit such things.

#Mercola vitamin d video professional#

This is an outstanding learning and teaching opportunity for us as a professional community. ItвЂ™s also a subject about which the general public and media are keenly interested. ThatвЂ™s because this situation is new, rapidly changing, and covers more areas of science and medicine than one can easily count. Some of our more astute readers may have noticed that we are paying influenza slightly more attention than other topics of late.