Pete Evans
Peter Daryl Evans is an Australian chef, conspiracy theorist, restaurateur, author, and television presenter. He is best known as a former judge of the competitive cooking show My Kitchen Rules. Evans has been heavily criticised for spreading misinformation about vaccinations and promoting pseudoscientific dieting ideas such as the paleolithic diet. In May 2020, Evans’ contract with channel Seven was terminated after poor ratings from the eleventh season.
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Peter Daryl Evans is an Australian chef, conspiracy theorist, restaurateur, author, and television presenter. He is best known as a former judge of the competitive cooking show My Kitchen Rules. Evans has been heavily criticised for spreading misinformation about vaccinations and promoting pseudoscientific dieting ideas such as the paleolithic diet. In 2013 Evans was involved in a venture with several business partners that were reported to owe USD 769,000 to a multitude of different creditors, including Evans himself. In May 2020, Evans’ contract with channel Seven was terminated after poor ratings from the eleventh season. Channel Seven has not announced whether Evans would appear on the network in the future. Evans is also a motivational speaker, performing national tours in Australia. He first learned of the paleo-diet after reading the works of Nora Gedgaudas. Some of his claims on fluoride and calcium have been challenged by the Australian Medical Association. Evans’ championing of alternative medicines and activated almonds has attracted criticism from peak medical bodies throughout Australia. In 2015, Evans co-authored a cookbook titled Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way for New Mums, Babies and Toddlers which raised controversy after being called ‘extremely deadly for all babies’ by health experts.
He won the Australian Skeptics’ Spoon Award twice, most recently in 2020 when he won the award for his promotion of the non-medical BioCharger for treating COVID-19, the anti-vaccination cause, through interviewing defrocked medico Andrew Wakefield. He has written the following books, most published by Murdoch Books: Evans has stated that he completed an online course with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and describes himself as a ‘health coach’ rather than a dietitian. His philosophy behind his books is that modern society is living by outdated nutritional precepts. Evans also hosted the show A Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking, airing on PBS in the United States, which was nominated in 2014 for a Daytime Emmy Award. In 2017, Evans produced and narrated a Netflix documentary called The Magic Pill, which promotes the ketogenic diet, and claims that it can help manage autism, asthma and cancer.
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