Pete Evans will open doors to his Byron Bay ‘healing clinic’ next month

Celebrity chef Pete Evans is set to open his new ‘healing clinic’ in Byron Bay next month – despite having no medical qualifications.

The anti-vaxxer, 47, announced the news on Facebook on Tuesday, and also hinted at franchise opportunities by offering fans a chance to open their own clinic if they ‘stay tuned for more information’.

After being dropped from Channel Seven earlier this year following a spate of controversial conspiracy theories, Pete relocated to Australia’s hippy capital of Byron Bay, where locals are more likely to be receptive to his pseudoscientific ideas.

And in four weeks’ time, he is set to open the doors to his new clinic, which is located in the Habitat retail precinct off Bayshore Drive.

‘Four weeks until we open our very first clinic. Stay tuned for more information and how you can open your own too for anyone interested. Please follow @evolvehealthlabs too ❤️,’ Pete said in his Facebook announcement.  

According to Evolve Health Labs’ Instagram account, the clinic will offer ‘transformational practises’ such as ‘cold and conscious breath-work’ and ‘cryotherapy’.

Despite sharing misleading information about immunisation over the years, Pete has insisted he is not an ‘anti-vaxxer’ but ‘pro-choice for medical freedom’.

Vaccinations are a simple, safe and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases before they come into contact with them, the Australian Government says.

The jabs protect individuals and others in the community, by reducing the spread of preventable diseases.  

Anti-vaxxers spread false and dangerous theories, such as vaccines cause autism, based on a completely discredited 1998 medical report that saw the author struck from the medical register.

Before vaccination campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s, diseases such as tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough killed thousands of children, whereas today in Australia, dying from one of these is extremely rare.

Meanwhile, the announcement of Pete’s new ‘healing clinic’ comes after he revealed he purchased a home device to ‘mitigate’ the supposedly harmful effects of 5G.

After courting controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic by railing against the new mobile technology, the avid conspiracy theorist said this week his ‘biology of beliefs’ had forced him to ‘err on the side of the caution’.

Discussing the matter with Jason Reynolds on his Evolve podcast, the former My Kitchen Rules star admitted he was aware his new purchase could just have a placebo effect, but he felt it was better to be ‘safe than sorry’.

‘I bought it because I wouldn’t say I have a state of fear of 5G, but maybe it’s better to be safe than sorry? And maybe this device that I’ve ordered could help mitigate it,’ he said.

His controversial comments come just days after Pete urged Black Lives Matters protesters to tear down 5G cell towers instead of colonial statues following a series of unfounded rants about how high-speed Internet spreads coronavirus. 

Speaking about his bizarre new purchase on his podcast, Pete said: ‘I just got a delivery today of a home device that potentially can help mitigate it [5G].’

Noting that he wasn’t completely sold on the product, he added: ‘Because of the biology of my beliefs, it’s good to know I have that in my home.

‘Even though it might have a placebo effect, it could put me into a state of calmness and not worrying about 5G. The jury’s out to a degree, but I’m on the side of caution.’

Pete has previously suggested the technology is involved in the spread of coronavirus – despite the federal government declaring 5G safe and scientists saying its radiation is incapable of penetrating human tissue.

There is zero evidence 5G towers negatively impact the immune system or help spread coronavirus. 

But in a post on his Instagram Stories on Monday afternoon, the divisive chef shared a meme calling on those defacing historic statues as part of the Black Lives Matter movement to instead focus their energy on destroying 5G infrastructure. 

‘Instead of tearing down old statues, if you could tear down those 5G towers that’d be great,’ the meme referencing a scene from the 1999 movie Office Space read. 

The meme referred to the vandalism of historic statues globally amid race-related protests in recent weeks – allegedly including the Captain Cook statue in Sydney’s Hyde Park in the early hours of Sunday morning. 

The post is the latest of a series of bizarre social media posts by the chef – who earlier this month endorsed US President Donald Trump’s threat to use the military against Black Lives Matter protesters following the death of African-American man George Floyd.

Mr Floyd died in the custody of four Minneapolis policemen – with officer Derek Chauvin charged with his murder after footage of him kneeling on Mr Floyd’s throat for almost nine minutes went viral.

The footage sparked outrage across the world and led to riots across the U.S., which Pete said he believed was part of a media conspiracy staged by ‘the elite’ to distract citizens from the coronavirus pandemic.    

In late May, Pete also threw his support behind a controversial protest against 5G and mandatory vaccinations – sharing a poster for the ‘peaceful protest walk’ to Facebook.

‘Wish I could join you all today. These are happening around Australia. Please film it for your record,’ he wrote.

He was released from his contract at Channel Seven following a spate of controversial and often dangerous statements – mostly relating to coronavirus conspiracy theories.  

Pete was also fined $25,200 by the Therapeutic Goods Administration in April for promoting a lamp he claimed could help treat coronavirus.