Archie Kalokerinos
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Archie Kalokerinos MBBS PhD is an Australian physician and opal miner. 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 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." [2] In 2002 he was reported as saying that the World Health Organisation and Save the Children's Fund "put Hitler and Stalin in the shade" when it came to mass killings. [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 [3], 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. He retired from full time practice in 1993 and spends most of his time doing private research.
[edit] Further reading
[edit] Publications by Archie Kalokerinos
Books
- Vitamin C Nature's Miraculous Healing Missile!, with Ian Dettman and Archie Kalokerinos ISBN 0-646-11985-0
- Every Second Child Archie Kalokerinos, Keats Publishing (1981) ISBN 0879832509
- Medical pioneer of the 20th century: Dr Archie Kalokerinos : an autobiography 2000 ISBN 0-646-40852-6
- Second Thought About Disease with Glen Dettman 1977
- Australian Precious Opal 1971
- In Search of Opal 1967
Journals
- Abuse or infection?Archie Kalokerinos, New Scientist Magazine issue 2516 , 10 September 2005 . Accessed October 2007
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1983) Is calcium ascorbate preferable to sodium ascorbate? Australasian Nurses J 12:9 PMID 6555033
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1982) How much vitamin C should I take? Australasian Nurses J 11:8-9 PMID 6924854
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1982) Ascorbate--the proof of the pudding! A selection of case histories responding to ascorbate Australasian Nurses J 11:18-21 PMID 6920272
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1981) Rubella immunisation, a tangle of absurdities and some comments. Australasian Nurses J 10:3-6 PMID 6917758
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1981) On your metal? Amazing zinc! Australasian Nurses J 10:22 PMID 6915775
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1981) "Mumps" the word but you have yet another vaccine deficiency Australasian Nurses J 10:17-8 PMID 6914174
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1981) Vitamin C: the dangers of calcium and safety of sodium ascorbate Australasian Nurses J 10:22 PMID 6910420
- Dettman G, Kalokerinos A (1980) Aboriginal health: the gentle art of deception Australasian Nurses J 10:14-5 PMID 6908523
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1980) Viral vaccines vital or vulnerable Australas Nurses J 9:27-32 PMID 6904225
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1980) Joggers - beware Australas Nurses J 9:22 PMID 6904216
- Cilento P, Kalokerinos A, Dettman I, Dettman G (1980) Venomous bites and vitamin C status Australas Nurses J9:19 PMID 6902663
- Knafelc D, Kalokerinos A, Dettmann G (1980) Disease etiology - a shock therapy Australasian Nurses J 9:18-20 PMID 6770812
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G. (1979) On new ideas and an U.S. experience Australasian Nurses J 9:22-6 PMID 119534
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1979) Year of the child: don't be beguiled Australasian Nurses J 8:22-4 PMID 110305
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1978) Vaccines: "who" benefits? Australasian Nurses J 7:15-6 PMID 100089
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1978) Does rubella vaccine protect? Australasian Nurses J 7:1-4 PMID 96796
- Kalokerinos A, (1978) "The sudden infant death syndrome. Part 2. Definition. Further clinical observations." Australasian Nurses J. Mar;7(7):6-8 PMID 418773
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1977) Vitamin C and the significance of that "wasted spillover" Australasian Nurses J 7:19 PMID 244300
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1977) The efficiency of immunisations Australasian Nurses J 6:15 PMID 587083
- Kalokerinos A, Dettman G (1976) Sudden death in infancy syndrome in Western Australia Med J Aust 2:31-2 PMID 979792
- Kalokerinos A. (1976) Letter: Severe measles in Vietnam. Med J Aust. Apr 17;1(16):593-4 PMID 933962
- Kalokerinos A. (1974) Poor black health, bad white attitudes. Aust Nurses J. Apr;3(9):29-31 PMID 4499636
- Kalokerinos A. (1973) Aboriginal infant health and mortality rates. Med J Aust. 1973 Mar 3;1(9):462-3 PMID 4708934
- Kalokerinos A. (1971) The Aboriginal infant mortality rate. Med J Aust. Aug 21;2(8):445-6. PMID 5122440
- Bryson AM, Kalokerinos A. (1970) Sudden unexpected deaths in infancy. Med J Aust. Aug 8;2(6):292. PMID 5456573
- Kalokerinos A. (1969) Some aspects of aboriginal infant mortality. Med J Aust. Jan 25;1(4):185-7 PMID 5779047
[edit] References
- Autobiography at Kythera-Family.net.
- The Skeptic 1999 (journal of the Australian Skeptics) Vol. 19 No. 4 [4]
- Shaken Baby Syndrome or Adverse Vaccine Reaction? Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 6 (October-November 2000) or November-December 2000 in the USA only. Report on evidence given by Kalokerinos in Regina v Scott Warren Walters, New South Wales Supreme Court ,April 1998
- Vitamin C -- Effective Treatment of SARS: Australian Doctors People's Daily, China, Tuesday, May 13, 2003 Accessed October 2007. Reports on article in The Canberra Times on Archie Kalokerinos and high dose Vitamin C administration to neutalise viruses.
- God Only knows Why, But it Works (1975) film docudrama about Dr Archie Kalokerinos and aboriginal healthcare , directed by Phillip Noyce, [5]
