A GP suspended for years under emergency powers after posting that vaccines were a guise for “re-engineering humans” and likening his former practice’s receptionists to Nazis has been disqualified for 12 months.

The case of Melbourne GP Dr Michael Ellis finally reached a tribunal in February, four years after he was suspended for comments published between March 2017 and March 2020.

Dr Ellis posted that “vaccines can be used as a cover for the injections of any and all genes, whose actual purpose is re-engineering humans,” and that chemotherapy did not help breast or organ cancers, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal said.

People “fighting these deadly diseases should strongly consider holistic, nutrition-based treatments instead of chemotherapy”, another post said.