The manufacturer of the Biocharger NG, a subtle energy revitalisation platform has distanced itself from celebrity chef Pete Evans’ claims that the platform includes “recipes for the corona virus”.

Evans has cultivated a loyal band of followers who have adopted his clean living lifestyle- incorporating a skepticism of authority, adherence to a palaeolithic diet and an avoidance of conventional medical practices such as disease vaccination.

“I heart him to the moon and back. He’s changed my life” said one enthusiastic supporter. “With Pete’s online presence and commentary, I feel so much better about my decision to no vaccinate my baby”.

It has not been all smooth sailing for Evans though. Within the context of inadvertently providing pseudo medical or health advice, critics point to Evans’ stark lack of knowledge, skills or formal qualifications. Nevertheless, Evans has bravely pressed on, backing his cooking skills and ability to do his own research to trump conclusions on a range of health topics for which experts generally agree there is no debate to be had. In the process, he has cultivated 1.5million Facebook and 230k Instagram followers.

Things have gotten a bit tricky for Evans in recent weeks. He mispoke on a recent Instagram video and in the process broke a fundamental rule of charlatanism.

“He is a loose cannon. He going to ruin charlatanism for all of us”

“I should have known better” said Evans in an exclusive interview with The Good Health Tribune. “My mentor, L.Ron, always said to me- “Pete, never make a claim you can’t dance sideways around… Always gives yourself an out… be as convincing and confident as you are vague and unfalsifiable”. I dropped the ball on this one. I don’t blame the Biocharger guys for hanging me out to dry”.

In the instagram video, since taken down, Evans was seen discussing the BioCharger NG- a "hybrid subtle energy revitalisation platform" which claims to "optimise and improve potential health, wellness and athletic performance" by replicating and delivering light, frequencies, harmonics, pulsed electromagnetic fields and voltage that are found in nature. Evans said he used the device most days and claimed it was "programmed with a thousand different recipes and there's a couple in there for the Wuhan coronavirus", which has been responsible for no less than 70 deaths in Australia and more than 100,000 worldwide.

The manufacturer of the Biocharger NG was quick to distance itself from Evans’ comments. “Fuck no we won’t back up what he said. He claimed there was a straight up recipe for curing the corona virus. That’s next level dodgy. We stand by our product’s capacity to not not be able to partially do some of the things that we claim it might have the potential to be able to do. We’ve always been crystal clear about that. Evans’ comment left us dumbfounded. He is a loose cannon. He is going to ruin charlatanism for all of us” said a spokesperson for the company.