evidence: Incorrect: Many scientific studies have shown that vaccines don’t cause autism. Implications to the contrary are thus contradicted by scientific evidence. Flawed reasoning: The claim is based on the observation that both the number of vaccines in the CDC schedule and the number of autism cases increased over the years. However, a correlation between two phenomena doesn’t mean that one causes the other. [...] While autism diagnoses have also increased during the same period, this doesn’t mean that vaccines cause autism. On the contrary, the weight of scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that vaccination isn’t associated with autism. The most plausible explanation for the rise in autism diagnoses so far is a broader diagnostic criteria thanks to improved understanding of the condition, rather than an actual rise in the incidence of autism in the population. An increase in public awareness of ASD is also likely to drive this trend.