The case for an autism-vaccine link is quite weak. The Durch of all people conducted a study of this ages ago with hundreds of thousands of kids receiving vaccines and a comparable number not, with no difference in autism rates between the control and test groups. That being said, autism rates have climbed rapidly at the same time that maternal age has skyrocketed, which we KNOW causes all sorts of other birth defects. Severe social isolation (because Karen loses her shit if you go outside to play with other kids unsupervised) coupled with parental neglect from a huge proportion of parents handing their kids a tablet in lieu of interaction is another probable cause for kids being socially retarded (read: autism). Of course no one wants to talk about those because it points the responsibility directly at the parents of 'tism kids, which hurts their fee fees.