Letter to Simpsonwood Attendees

An Open Letter To All Attendees of "The Scientific Review of VaccineSafety Datalink Information" meeting, June 7-8, 2000 Simpsonwood Retreat Center:My name is Russel Vincent Mancino. I live in a small town in NewJersey. I have a nine year old son, Russel John Mancino. My sons middle name is taken from his maternal grandfather. The reason I did this is because my father in law could always be counted on to do what was "right" and to look out for others from a purely selfless sense of moral conviction, despite the hardship that came when he took on the role of a caretaker. He is not a physician or scientist, but the way he cared for his family and friends always reminded me of how a doctor would treat his patients. I always wanted to be a doctor but I was afraid of making life and death decisions. I chose instead to pursue a career in law. Ironically I am a trial attorney and I defend doctors and other health care professionals when they are sued for malpractice. I always held physicians in high regard and I wanted to stand with them if they were ever sued. I felt it was my duty because of all the good they do that goes unnoticed and unappreciated. I wanted my son to have traits of myself and his grandfather. It's funny how much thought goes into naming a child. Especially when you learn that there are so many other decisions you make atthe time of birth can be so profound and have a life long effect onyour child. Like the decision to allow a vaccine to be injected into your child, under the false assumption that the safety of that vaccine has been demonstrated. By now you are wondering who I am and why I am writing to you about my son. My hope is that you are curious and will read on to find out why you are one of many receiving this letter. My son was diagnosed as suffering from autism at age five. I know you are intimately familiar with this autism from my research which began immediately after the neurologist who made the "diagnosis" uttered that heart breaking and life changing word, which she explained was causing his unusual behavior. She made equally clear that this condition that has no cure, gave me the grim prognosis as well as a glimpse of what the rest of his life, as well as mine, would be like. With a word, the hopes and dreams I had for my son were shattered. Everything I worked so hard for to make his life happy, to help make it a little easier than mine was suddenly of no consequence. You may not know that feeling but I know of many fathers who know it all to well. It is emotionally devastating and physically sickening. Not a day has gone by since his diagnosis that I haven't asked how and why. Not a day has gone by that I have not found myself dry heaving from the fear and frustration that I feel every waking minute of each day of what the future holds for my son. My frustration is that it is now clear that I may have been able to prevent this from happening to him. If only I had done a little investigating or asked a few questions, rather than blindly following the recommendations of you and the other so called experts on vaccine safety, he could have been spared from this condition about which so little is known despite the improbable number of children who have been similarly diagnosed.I understand that you were present for and participated in a meeting which included health care providers, members of various government health agencies including the CDC, NIH, IOM and FDA, drug company representatives and others who are also charged with protecting the health of the citizens of this country. I include drug company representatives as being responsible for this charge. Not only because they were invited to attend the meeting but becauseI believe anyone who had knowledge of this horrific, life threatening information available at this meeting were equally obligated to share that information with the public as the doctors and scientists who attended this meeting despite the inherent conflict of interest that existed between those making health policy decisions for the people of this country and those who stand to profit from those policy decisions. Everyone and anyone who participated in this meeting is culpable and responsible for the consequences that have resulted.In case you have again failed to make the causal connection, or continue to deny the truth, I am referring to "THE SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF VACCINCE SAFETY DATALINK INFORMATION" conference which took placeon June 7-8, 2000 at the Simpsonwood Retreat in Norcross, Georgia. From what I have learned this was a gathering of doctors and scientists convened to study the data collected and review reports pertaining to that data, whose main author has been identified as Dr. Thomas Verstraeten. The general purpose of the meeting was to address the correlation between heavy metal exposure from childhood vaccinations and neurodevelopmental injuries in children. More particularly, the issue was whether the staggering increase in childhood neurodevelopmental delays and disorders in this country was the result of the use of known neurotoxins as preservatives in vaccines, purposefully injected directly into the bloodstream of newborn babies, a practice mandated by the United State government vaccine and immunization schedule. As you are probably aware there is an increasing number of doctors, scientists, government officials and above all else parents, who through tireless research in the hope of helping their children, who believe that there was a cover up by all of the attendees of the Simpsonwood meeting about the known risk of injecting newborn babies with neurotoxins that were used by drug companies as preservatives to increase the shelf life, reduce contamination and cut the cost of making vaccines without the preservatives. This as you knew then and we know now could have been done for a fraction of the cost of what it will take to pay for the lifelong care of these children. Instead a portion (1 in 166) of an entire generation of children were sacrificed in order to cover up a deliberate decision to not hold the drug companies responsible for the products they put on the markets and to avoid the embarrassment of the CDC, NIH, IMO and every other alphabet agency of the federal government that isresponsible for safeguarding the public. In a word your conduct and the conduct of everyone else charged with protecting our kids was despicable. How you can live with yourselves is beyond comprehension. How you can continue to deny the facts, frustrating the efforts to get the funding needed to help these kids, is criminal.I have a request on my son's behalf. What's done is done. But it'snot over. I would respectfully request that you come out in public, acknowledge the truth and join the fight to eliminate neurotoxins from ever being used in another vaccine again. Any notes you have from the meeting would be of help in our fight for a cure or to just help with developing that is safe and may help restore what has be taken from these kids. Alternatively please provide the rest of us who were not invited to Simpsonwood with the specific data and information upon which you relied to allow the continued use of neurotoxins in vaccines tha twere still on the market at the time of the meeting in June, 2000.Vaccines which continued to be given to newborns whose immune systems could not handle the toxic load. Newborns who have succumbed to the devastating effects of having toxic metals into their blood compromising the developing brain, a fact that all of you were aware of yet chose to ignore and cover up even until today. I would love to see the vaccination records of the children and grandchildren of the "Simpsonwood Conspirators" who poisoned a nation. I hope your children and grandchildren are fine. I would not wish what my son, my family and every other family who has a child with mercury induced neurotoxicity has gone through (and will continue to go through) on anyone. Not even on the people who had the power to stop it and failed.If you should have any questions you can e-mail me. If you want my address for service of process I'll give you that. If you want to help send any information you have from the meeting at Simpsonwoodthat might help us treat our children and give them a chance at life. As men and women of science who took the Hippocratic oath("First do no harm") I feel you owe it to us. Send any information you have to the American Autism Association, a group that lost a pioneer and a deeply committed man who spent most of his life tryingto help those inflicted with this terrible syndrome, Dr. BernardRimland. You can also send it to Dr. Sid Baker, Dr. Andy Wakefield,Dr. Jim Neubrander, Dr. Stephanie Cave or Congressman Weldon. These are names you are probably familiar with because these men and women have been on the front line fighting the battle for our kids. A battle necessitated by your inaction, neglect, recklessness and failure to live up to your commitment to help rather than hurt. My goal was to e-mail everyone at the conference. However, it is taking too long to track down all the addresses and I want to get this out today as time is essential.Respectfully, Russel V. MancinoProud father of Russel John Mancino, who only wants to be likethe "other kids".I'm would appreciate it if anyone and everyone who is copied on this e-mail can send it to a friend or two and to your representatives inthe House and Senate and anyone that you know of who may have been at Simpsonwood for this meeting. Thanks.