That principle that "correlation is not causation" is often misused.
It is correctly used by people in response to people making up pseudo-science. Correlation is the beginning of a hypothesis which needs to be tested. Until that time correlation is just a hypothesis, it is not a fact.
People who understand science will then find a way to test the hypothesis having established controls and reducing bias. The first thing you would do is throw-out the rate of vaccines with the rate of diagnosis of autism.
Correlation is evidence that two things are linked. Ice cream sales go up in the summer, they are linked, doesn't mean that the more ice cream that is sold causes global temperatures to rise. But it is evidence that the two things are linked.
That ice cream sales increased is a fact.
That autism has increased is NOT a fact.
That the diagnosis of autism has increased is a fact.
This is evidence that autism rates and the vaccine schedule for kids are linked.
If one is to say they are linked in that the DIAGNOSIS of autism increased at the same time vaccines increased, sure.
One can rightly just say that the DIAGNOSIS of autism increased at the same time cable TV increased. This is more likely.
There is more evidence in favor of cable TV. You see, impoverished people have access to vaccines by various organizations, but do not have access to cable. So, we find kids without cable TV are less likely to have autism.
This is the problem in not using the scientific method. For those with crayons up their noses and can't play along at home: The reason you would not have more cases of autism in impoverished populations is due to lack of a diagnosis.
Are we getting more vaccines to treat autism? That would mean that increased autism is causing the drug companies to come up with more vaccines. No, we don't have a vaccine for autism. That doesn't make sense.
You are not making sense and don't seem to understand biology on a high school level. Your statements are so out of whack I cannot even think where to begin. There are no vaccines to treat autism. Autism is not known to be caused by something that an immune response can prevent. I cannot be said that autism is increasing. You should know better than that. It is a simple matter of critical thinking.
Also the autism shows up after they get the the vaccines, not the other way around.
Wrong again. I really wonder how people can be so lacking in critical thinking.
Autism is diagnosed. There is not a blood test for it. Autism is diagnosed as early as four, but can be diagnosed as young as two.
Therefore, the diagnosis will come after initial vaccination.
This is, yet again, not science except in the formation of a hypothesis. There is more evidence that cable tv causes autism using the same pseudo-science methodology.