Believe it or not-vaccines don't cause autism-leaving near someone with autism causes autism

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Read the following quote - and weep.Despite a plethora of studies, we do not know why autism incidencehas increased rapidly over the past two decades. Using Californiadata, this study shows that children living very close to a childpreviously diagnosed with autism are more likely to be diagnosedwith autism. An underlying social influence mechanism involvinginformation diffusion drives this result, contributing to 16% of theincrease in prevalence over 2000–2005. We eliminate competingexplanations (i.e., residential sorting, environmental toxicants, andviral transmission) through seven tests and show that informationdiffusion simultaneously contributed to the increased prevalence,spatial clustering, and decreasing age of diagnosis.Social Influence and the Autism Epidemic1Ka-Yuet Liu, Marissa King, and S. BearmanColumbia UniversityAJS Volume 115 Number 5 (March 2010): 1387–1434

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