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Tuesday, 24 June 2025

The Doctor Who Spoke Out — And Paid the Price

I recently came across a compelling interview with Dr. Aseem Malhotra titled “The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: ‘We've Been Lied To About Medication!’” and felt it deserved a wider audience, not for sensationalism, but because it raises questions we’re too often told not to ask.

Malhotra is no crank. He’s a respected British cardiologist who once enthusiastically promoted pharmaceutical interventions, including the COVID-19 vaccines. But as he tells it, experience — and personal tragedy — led him down a very different path.

Here are the key takeaways:

  • Big Pharma's Influence
    Malhotra paints a disturbing picture of an industry with far too much sway over medical research, publication, and guidelines. The result? Not only overmedication and an ignorant public, but poorer health outcomes.

  • COVID Vaccine Concerns
    Initially supportive, Malhotra changed course after his father’s sudden death — a cardiac event he now believes was linked to vaccination. He points to multiple studies that show that the COVID mRNA vaccines carried a greater risk of serious harm than benefits, and believes that vaccination should not never have been mandated and that no one should continue to be vaccinated.

  • Lifestyle Over Medication
    A longtime advocate of healthy living, Malhotra argues that we’ve become too reliant on drugs — particularly statins — when the better solution is staring us in the mirror: diet, exercise, and stress control. He argues that if patients are properly advised about the risks and benefits of a medications such as statins, they would be able to make an informed consent to their treatment. 

  • Speaking Out Comes at a Cost
    Unsurprisingly, his public stance has made him a target. He’s faced professional backlash, regulatory scrutiny, and the full force of the modern "consensus machine."

  • A Call for Transparency
    At heart, his message is simple: stop censoring debate. Let people hear the whole story, even if it makes us uncomfortable.

Now, you don’t have to agree with everything Malhotra says, but in an era where dissent is often treated as heresy, voices like his deserve to be heard, questioned, and debated — not silenced.

You can watch the interview below.













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