Archie Kalokerinos
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Archie Kalokerinos MBBS PhD FAPM is an Australian physician. In 2000 he was awarded the title Greek Australian of the Century by the Melbourne-based Greek newspaper Neos Kosmos. He held controversial opinions on a number of medical issues. He was a supporter of Linus Pauling's very controversial theory that many diseases result from overproduction of free radicals and can accordingly be prevented or cured by Vitamin C; this led him to treat many conditions with high intravenous doses of vitamin C. He also believed that vaccination schemes have been used for deliberate genocide (among indigenous Australians, and in spreading HIV in Africa); and that the US government systematically planned to get rid of undesirables such as criminals by encouraging people with known heart problems to be vaccinated. He is considered an authority by anti vaccinationist organisations, and is quoted as claiming that "...the unofficial policy of the World Health Organisation and the unofficial policy of the 'Save the Children's Fund' ... is one of murder and genocide." [1]
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[edit] Life
"Archie" Kalokerinos was born ‘Archivides’ Kalokerinos, in Glenn Innes, Australia, on September 28 1927 (he was named after the Greek hero Alcibiades, but during translation the spelling was mistaken). Kalokerinos took his medical degree from Sydney University in 1951 and then spent six years in England. On his return to Australia he was appointed Medical Superintendent of the hospital at Collarenebri, a town 500 miles north-west of Sydney.
In 1965, temporarily disillusioned with medicine, he tried opal mining at Coober Pedy, but after being injured in a fight he returned to medicine at Collarenebri, where he served until 1975.
[edit] Vitamin C work
Dr Kalokerinos became very concerned about the high death rate of Aboriginal children in that part of New South Wales. He came to the conclusion that the infants had symptoms of scurvy, a deficiency of vitamin C, and he treated them accordingly. The [Nobel prize] winner [Linus Pauling] in the foreword to Kalokerinos' book Every Second Child endorsed his views.
Dr Kalokerinos is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, a Fellow of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine [2], Fellow of the Australasian College of Biomedical Scientists, Fellow of the Hong Kong Medical Technology Association, and a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is an author of 28 papers listed in PubMed, including 22 published in The Australasian Nurses Journal. He is also the author of two books on the subject of opal. Currently he is a general practitioner at Bingara, New South Wales.
[edit] Publications by author
- Vitamin C Nature's Miraculous Healing Missile! (co-author with Dr Ian Dettman & Dr Glen Dettman) ISBN 0-646-11985-0 Foreword by Linus Pauling
- Every Second Child. 1974 ISBN 0-87983-250-9.
- "The sudden infant death syndrome. Part 2. Definition. Further clinical observations." 1978 Kalokerinos A, Australas Nurses J. Mar;7(7):6-8 PMID 418773
- "The efficiency of immunisations." Kalokerinos A, Dettman G. 1977 Australas Nurses J. Apr;6(9):15. PMID 587083
- "Sudden death in infancy syndrome in Western Australia." 1976 Kalokerinos A, Dettman G. Med J Aust. Jul 3;2(1):31-2 PMID 979792
- Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century 2000 ISBN 0-646-40852-6
- Second Thought About Disease with Glen Dettman 1977
- In Search of Opal 1967
- Australian Precious Opal 1971
[edit] References
- Autobiography at Kythera-Family.net.
- The Skeptic 1999 (journal of the Australian Skeptics) Vol. 19 No. 4 [3]
