Glenn Beck is scaring people away from getting the H1N1 shot. “You don’t know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s.”

Politifact looked into this and declared his statement “Barely True.”

In 1976, 1 in every 100,000 people who got the swine flu shot contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurological disease. But 30 years have passed. “The seasonal flu vaccine has been administered to 100 million to 250 million people a year worldwide, and there’s been no evidence it caused anyone to get Guillain-Barre or any other neurological disorder,” says Politifact.

The current swine flu vaccine was made the same way as the seasonal flu vaccine has been made for the past 20 years. Had it been discovered earlier, the vaccine would have been included in this year’s seasonal vaccine. But by the time it was discovered, in May, the seasonal vaccine was already being made. Thus the need for a second shot.

Politifact concludes, “Without noting that the H1N1 vaccine has been manufactured in essentially the same way as the seasonal flu shot that has been used by hundreds of millions of people — without any established link to neurological problems — ends up misleading by omission. And so we rule Beck’s statement Barely True.”

But because of his (and Rush’s) alarmist statements, absorbed by devoted listeners, people will most likely die. Most likely the children of listeners. But hey, anything to stick it to the Feds.