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Dr Aseem Malhotra

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“Like, okay, let's just throw this question to you. Say you've had a heart attack, you survived a heart attack, doctor says, take this drug, and over a five-year period, how much extra life extension would you hope or hope it would add over that five years? You can do it over whether 20 years, but just say five years to start with, how much longer would you hope to live from taking that stat in?”
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“The benefit of a statin is better, Steve. Okay. So let's say, for example, some patient comes in, they've had a heart attack and I'm telling them the benefit of the statin, if they take it religiously every day for five years, because that's how long the trials last, where you can give them that information, the benefit of preventing a further heart attack is one in 39, about 2.5%. 1 in 39. And the benefit in prolonging their life is one in 83. There's another way of looking at the stats though based upon again industry sponsored trials, all of the trials that have been done on statins. And people might ask a question. They don't often ask this, but they may ask the question, how much longer am I going to live?”
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“Quite high of those sorts of side effects, right? And that caused a bit of backlash because the group of researchers in Oxford who take money from Big Pharma, who write the guidelines around the world said this is going to scare people, stop them taking startings and people will die. But that for the low risk people, no one's going to die because there's no benefit in mortality. Now, for high-risk people, those are people who've had a heart attack.”
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“More than two-thirds of them, most of them will, and my experience as well, say doc, those odds don't sound great. I want to prevent heart disease, but I don't fancy taking, and this is before, by the way, we've talked about side effects. Where the controversies happened, which I've been heavily involved in, is in my experience with patients and also other data that's out there, a large proportion of patients will suffer quality, let me be clear here, it's not about serious, right? Quality of life limiting side effects, right? That means most commonly fatigue, muscle pain, can be erectile dysfunction, sleep disturbance, but stuff that makes you not feel good. This is not a good way to live. The good news is it's reversible usually within a couple weeks of stopping the statin or reducing the dose. Okay, so that controversy led to me publishing an article in the British Medical Journal in 2013 where me and another and a Harvard doctor in a separate article said we believe that the side effect rate is probably in the order of one in five people, 20%, which is”
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“Or you have not been diagnosed with severe blockages, right? You've not got that right. And you would know if you did because you'd get symptoms of chest pain doing exercise. Then the benefit of a statin for you over a five year period at best is one in a hundred in preventing you having a non fatal heart attack, a non-disabling stroke, but will not prolong your life by one day. So that's the first thing. Now, when you do studies where you give patient that information in that transparent way,”
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“Exactly. So the question then is, what is the benefit of statins? So the first thing to say, and this is where the controversies happened, is that what I'm about to tell you is again based upon drug industry-sponsored trials, where the raw data on those trials, with the benefits I'm going to tell you, has never been independently verified. So what I say to patients, and I'll say this to you, is what I'm about to tell you is likely, my opinion, an exaggerated benefit, but it's still a benefit I'm going to tell you if we trust the drug companies completely. This is a benefit you're going to get, Steve. If you've not had a heart attack, forget about high cholesterol for a second, right? This place for everybody. If you've not had a heart attack,”
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“Two problems with that. The first one is that statins actually have other properties other than lowering LDL cholesterol. They are also anti-inflammatory and they have anticlotting properties. What's accepted now is we know heart disease is a clotting problem linked to chronic inflammation. So it means the benefit of statins, which I will give you in a second, right, is probably more likely because of those properties because other studies, when we did other drugs on cholesterol, there was no benefit. Does that make sense? Am I making sense?”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Drugs are lower cholesterol and will prevent heart attacks. So all the drug trials, Steve, before statins came on the market, did not show any benefit. So you've got the trial where you've got someone with high cholesterol and another person with high cholesterol. One person gets a drug and the other person doesn't. You follow them up. The person on the drug massively lowers the cholesterol, no prevention and heart attacks over several years. Like, hold on, what's going on here? Maybe we did the trial wrong. Let's try again. Let's try again. Let's try again. Statins are produced, a different type of cholesterol-lowing drug. And suddenly you start seeing benefits. Oh, great, we've solved it. Then we can make this case that the lower cholesterol are better.”
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“Those people who got the Nobel Prize for this discovery said they predicted almost the eradication of heart disease in the world by the early 2000s because we had discovered these drugs called statin drugs at lower cholesterol and are shown through clinical trials to prevent heart attacks and strokes and death, which will come on to, right? So you've got the combination of that. But before statins came onto the market and have been prescribed now to 200 million people, one of the things that isn't talked about enough is that there were lots of trials done. So you've got this hypothesis now, we think we're right here. We've discovered that very high cholesterol in the population has got strong link to heart disease. And we've discovered that very low cholesterol doesn't give heart disease. But by the way, what's interesting is for 95% of the population in the middle, there was no relationship with who was going to develop heart disease and who wasn't, depending on based upon their cholesterol.”
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“And there's a line in that, which I mentioned in my book, where he said you can be an obese, diabetic, sedentary smoker. As long as your cholesterol is low enough, in other words, LDL cholesterol, you will not develop heart disease. Think about that for a second. Now, I'm just putting that to you, Steve. Now, you hearing that, does that sound plausible to you? It doesn't, it sounds a bit strange, doesn't it? Right? And I thought this is odd. I started looking into this in a lot of detail probably 2010, partly because by the end of the late 90s, the people who had discovered the relationship with very high LDL cholesterol, which is actually, by the way, genetically linked to a condition called format.”
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“Was causing the heart disease, but it happened to also be causing a raised LDL. At the same time, people with local estrol, they may have had something else, right? They may have had other factors that we now know actually are linked to heart disease and it's something to do with the cholesterol. So that's the first thing. The next question is, does low in cholesterol? So the question to you is, does lowering your LDL make any difference? And for many, many years, there was a mantra that was pushed by the medical establishment that there was a linear relationship. The lower URLDL, the less likely you etig at heart disease. In fact, there was a commentary written by one of America's most well-known eminent cardiologists. He was the editor of the American Journal of Cardiology. His name was William Roberts. And he wrote an article in 2011 to try and push the cholesterol message further so more people take cholesterol or end drug statins. And it was called Itza Cholesterol Stupid.”
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“The thinking was that the lower the better. So all these drug trials started. But there's one thing missing, first and foremost, is that most people's cholesterol, Steve, LDL, is genetic. 80% of your cholesterol, because cholesterol is a very, so why have we got it? It's a very vital molecule in the body without cholesterol, we would die. It's required for maintaining the integrity of cells and cell membranes. It's required for hormone production, right? It has a role in the immune system. So it's really important vital molecule in the body. You can change the profile of the cholesterol, the different components. There's something called triglycerides, which is a blood fat and HDL so-called good cholesterol and LDL through dietary changes, but predominantly it's genetic initially, right? So this is a thing. So one could then question maybe those people in those original studies had genetically high cholesterol, but that doesn't mean the cholesterol was the problem. There may have been something else that hadn't been measured that we hadn't discovered yet.”
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“The second part of it and why they thought that getting it as low as possible was the solution is that people who had very low levels of cholesterol tended not get heart disease, right? Total cholesterol less than four LDL less than 2 millimoles. Let's just say that for argument's sake, less than 2 millimoles per liter. And by the way, just so people understand this, you would have got a red mark probably saying that your LDL cholesterol is high. If it's more now, the guidelines suggest if it's more than three millimoles per litre in your blood, the measurement, that is considered high. But we'll tear that apart in a second. Now, the thinking was that, okay, if people with low cholesterol are not getting heart disease and people with very high levels of cholesterol are getting heart disease, and that was total cholesterol above 10, for example, right? And LDLs above seven or eight, massively high, right? Then, or more likely to get heart disease at significant numbers.”
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“Well, it's thought of conventionally as a bad cholesterol, right? And the reason for that is that earlier studies that were done On the correlation that was found between high cholesterol and heart disease revealed at very high levels of total cholesterol, there was a very high prevalence of heart disease. But those levels of cholesterol go, and we're talking about going back from studies that started in 1948 that went over three decades where they found cholesterol being associated with heart disease was only really there at very, very high levels. That's the first thing.”
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“Okay, so on the statins issue and the cholesterol issue, traditionally Steve, for decades and even now, one of the primary focus within medicine within cardiology to combat heart disease was to get your so-called bad cholesterol LDL as low as possible.”
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“Right, and that is what we call a shockable rhythm. If you deliver a shock, often 200 joules, right, is delivered with a defibrillator, that will often restart the heart into a normal rhythm. And then the patient can be managed and treated, for example. So that quivering of the heart causes basically the heart to stop pumping blood around the body. The heart's still moving, but it's not enough to pump blood around the body. And if that's going for a very long time, Steve, not long, you know, for example, my dad's case, it may have been similar 20 or 30 minutes, then eventually then, you know, that will even stop and patient dies.”
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“In a certain proportion of people, and it doesn't depend on the size of the heart attack. So you can have a big area of the heart muscle that's damaged or a small area of the heart muscle that damage, and it's random that it can cause an interruption in the normal electrical activity of the heart. The heart has electrical circuit that allows it to pump, right? An electrical circuit that allows it to pump in a certain regular rhythm. circuit can get interrupted and then the heart muscle that's pumping like this right because it's pumping all the blood around your body to your brain everything else suddenly starts quivering right and that's known as ventricular fibrillation that's when you see on all the you know on movies or on tv shows and stuff like that when they start shocking people and that shows on the heart tracing as a kind of squiggle like this”
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“Yes, you're conscious. So a cardiac arrest just means the heart stopping. Ultimately, actually, we all have a cardiac rest when we die. The last thing to go is our heart, right? But one of the most common causes of a cardiac arrest, certainly prematurely, not because of old age, for example, is, and this is random. So you can have a”
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“So the classic symptoms of a heart attack is essential what we call crushing heaviness or pain that can travel, radiate we say in medical terms to the neck, the jaw, it can go into the shoulders, it can go into the back. That's the classic symptoms or down the left arm.”
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“Because they're not getting oxygen. Exactly. So you've basically cut off the blood supply. So it's cutting off the blood supply to whatever area because there are many branches. It depends where the blockage is. You cut off the blood supply. If it's cut off for long enough, those cells, every cell in our body needs oxygen to survive, right? Then that part of the heart muscle will die and become scarred.”
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“Blood having contact with the contents of that plaque that has built up over time suddenly caused the clock to form. And if the clot blocks the whole artery, then the blood supply is completely cut off to the heart muscle. So the purpose of those blood vessels is to supply the heart muscle with blood so it can contract. So if you have a blockage that is there for several minutes, completely cutting off the blood supply depending on where it is, it will cause that area of the heart muscle to lose its oxygen supply and nutrients and die and scar. And that leads to cell death. But of course, the heart muscle is quite big, so it could be a very small heart attack, could be a big heart attack. And then so heart attack specifically is death of any region of the heart muscle because of a blockage.”
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“Write a blockage. That blockage is made up of cells of the immune system. It's made up of cholesterol, right? And over time, those blockages can either suddenly, like a pimple building up and the pimple getting bigger and bigger and bigger, or even a small pimple suddenly bursting. And the contents of that plaque, right, the response to”
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“Assume we know, but So heart disease, the Conventional description or explanation of heart disease is disease that affects the blood vessels of the heart, essentially. That's coronary artery disease, we call it. That's what most people when they talk about heart disease, that's what they mean. So that disease, it affects the blood vessels. Leads to build up Something called Plark, which is Furing, if you like, okay, like a Yeah, so plaque is furring of the arteries like a blockage.”
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“To promote the mandates, right? This is after the data they received showing that it wasn't preventing infection and causing serious harm, right? So this is a problem with the system. I'm not blaming individuals here. This is something we'll talk about with statins as well is that the system, the corporate capitalist system or the way capitalism is actually being implemented is in its In many ways, and this has been diagnosed by forensic psychologists, the corporation as an institution is psychopathic when it comes to making money. That means they have callous unconcern for the safety of others, repeated lying, conning others for profit. And this is unfortunately, this is the root of the problem”
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“I would think probably earlier, Stephen. The only reason I say this is anecdotal evidence, of course, is my dad had a cardiac arrest in the summer of 2021. He was 73, right? And he could be considered in a high-risk group. So I think that if one is to make that case, I would say, well, it depends what we're talking about as well. In terms of COVID, yes, right, the net benefit in terms of COVID and COVID deaths. But the problem is the point in preventing someone getting COVID if six months later they're going to die of a cardiac arrest. You see what I mean? So we've got to look at it in that nuanced way. But yeah, I think there is a case to be made that if it was just given to certain high-risk groups overall, there may have been a net benefit at the beginning. But where we are now and where it's continued and the mandates and all the stuff that extended it to many more people taking it. And that almost certainly was being fueled by Pfizer. And that's been shown that they were giving money to credible grassroots organizations in the US.”
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“On the positive side, there are a lot of good friends around. I haven't got immediate emotional support, if that makes sense, right where I am. But there are hundreds of thousands of people that support me, certainly who follow me on Twitter and people come and meet me in the street. I randomly bumped into this doctor in the street who I didn't know, an older doctor, quite well known, I won't name him. And he said he got really emotional in the street and he met me and he said, Dr. Mahotra, thank you for everything you are doing with all of this. And I said, well, you know, I tried to be as humble with her. I said, I'm just a medium for a message. I'm doing the right thing. He said, no, what you're doing is extremely brave. And I'm with you 100%. And I know the vaccine killed one of my colleagues, et cetera, et cetera. And he was very honest that I'm just too frightened to speak up.”
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“Um, Very deep pain To have the knowledge and understanding that in my view, We are dealing with one of the greatest likely corporate crimes medical mistakes damage to people's health. People are suffering. People are dying. People have got all sorts of problems because of this vaccine. To have that deep knowledge and understanding and to not. Able to see any great progress or enough progress for this to be resolved or to be improved, that suffering around me gives me very deep pain, more than anything else. I think inherently I'm just very sensitive to that around. That's just the way I am. I think it's part of my innate nature. I've always been like that. I went from...”
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“I admire greatly. And Jordan Peterson says, when you have something to say, silence is a lie. And tyranny, tyranny emerges when people are afraid to say what they think. And when everybody essentially lies all the time by being silent, that's when the tyranny is complete. This is exactly where we are. But I do want to mention something, if you don't mind. I have to go through this, right? Myself. And it's not easy, right? You get all this stuff and people checking credibility. And I remember when that guardian hit piece, which was like the top story that day, I actually felt in many ways a Mick feelings, but I felt over the target here, right? Because Gandhi said, first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. So the point is these things work, Steve, but, you know, the truth is the truth.”
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“He's giving his opinion, but actually from every cardiologist that I spoke to has basically said, I seem you're going to doing great work, but they won't speak out. And this is part of the problem, right? Is that people are turning a blind eye. I had one cardiologist who met me in the street, right? This happens all the time. And he said, I read your paper. He said, I can tell you now, although they won't admit it publicly, all the cardiologists in our department and they know you and they trust where you come from and your integrity. None of them are having any more COVID vaccines because of you. They're onto it. But Steve, this is a problem. Only a small minority of people are willing to speak out. I have a platform where I'm able to articulate it and do so, but that is my duty and responsibility. This is just a reflection of what is ultimately a big pharma tyranny. I know you've interviewed Jordan Peterson.”
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“Is a huge bias. So they're not independent. So those are the two facts that should at least if I threw that back, you say, hold on a minute, then should I believe all this now? What was the purpose of that article? Of course, it was to undermine my credibility. I'm exposing essentially something, you know, for all intents and purposes pretty horrific, you know, reluctantly on the BBC with 25 million views or whatever else, right? People that inspire me have been through far worse, right? And I'm an activist that want to expose injustices, right? The likes of Mandela, Gandhi, Martin Luther King. One of the lessons from them and even in public health advocacy, as soon as your work threatens an industry or an ideological cabal, you will be attacked sometimes unrelentingly and viciously. And that was really a hatchet job.”
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“An annual conference where the president of the BMA was there, the chair of the BMA was there, right? And they were gobsmacked and they didn't, they couldn't believe. And this is why this information is so important, these facts are so important. Even I was shocked when I read this, are medical regulator in this country, MHRA, gets 86% of its funding from Big Pharma.”
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“Maybe. And this stuff works. I'll come on to this. And this was a bit of a hatchet job by the Guardian. Interestingly, I've written 19 op-eds for the Guardian Observer newspaper over the years. But you know how this journalism works? They'll move on. A couple of things. Just a couple of facts to throw back at you first. And then what you've raised is really interesting historically and something that I've learned from this sort of backlash. Mark Dweck, with the greatest respect to him, what wasn't disclosed in the article is that he has taken money from Pfizer. He's been funded by Pfizer. And that's actually, you can look that up, right? So that's one thing. So that's a bias. More important than that, the MHRA, which was described as independent, right? Yes, is not. The British Medical Journal, BMJ, did an investigation published in the summer of 2022. And I presented this data on the MHRA at the British Medical Association.”
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“Understand and forgive as long as we communicate it in the right way. I have these conversations all the time with my patients. I give them numbers, I talk through it, when I talk about statin drugs, for example, I say, I'm going to give you these numbers, but there are lots of caveats here. One, the data's never been independently verified, right? And I give them all this and I give them alternatives, et cetera. I do this all the time. And patients want that. They want more information in a way that they can understand. And of course, yes, they want to trust their doctor. But again, it comes down to ethics, values, intent. And doctors not admitting their mistakes is a very, very bad place to be.”
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“Steve, the thing is with doots for vaccines, they went through many, many years of safety checks, right? And this is an important thing. People, I think we shouldn't underestimate people's intelligence and their ability to”
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“Yeah, no, and it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate that that has definitely showed, there has been a dent and a change, I think, an uptake of things like MMR.”
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“No, no, no. I'm talking about anything new. I'm not talking about. So, yes, absolutely. Traditional vaccines, I mean, I'm still a big subscriber and supporter. Let me just make this clear with traditional vaccines. In my paper that I wrote, I said, you know, estimates suggest vaccines have saved four to five million lives a year and a serious harm rate. Vaccines, I think there's of course there's going to be nothing's completely safe, no drug is pharmacology, completely safe, but just in terms of published data, right, probably still an exaggeration, but still it gives you a comparison. Serious harm rate for traditional vaccines, one to two per million.”
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“If there happened to be a pandemic within a short space of time after that admission, yes, it may well be that people aren't going to go and take vaccines. But why should they, Steve?”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's an uncomfortable truth that needs facing though, Steve, because if we don't face it, these problems are going to carry on. We're not going to improve the situation by ignoring it and sweeping under the carpet. So there will be that. You're right. There will be that backlash. I myself have had that, right? I've had people, you know, I got heckled, you know, a talk I gave on this for the first time when I spoke at it in London saying I was part of it all, you're a liar, all this stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Spleetas were thrown at me. And I understand where that emotion comes from. But at the end of the day, the only way we can progress and evolve is just accepting. But that, you know, because we want to then, it's not just about saying we got this wrong, it's actually explaining to people and saying, okay, we thought we were doing the right thing. These are problems in the system we weren't aware of. Most people are not aware of this. We need to resolve this and move forward with greater transparency. And over time, now, okay, within the immediate aftermath, of course there's going to be that emotional reaction. There's going to be a backlash.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is a big risk. And the way around that is, and this is what we're taught as doctors, right? It's one of the things that is ingrained into a medical school is that when you make a mistake, you tell the patient. Patients are very forgiving if they think and know that you acted from a place of good intent, because mistakes happen, things go wrong. Is what we need as a mere copper, right? I was willing to do that. I mean, in some way, I was partly responsible, certainly the very early stage, to support a vaccine rollout. But I know that the most important thing for me to do when new information comes available and medicine, again, is not an exact science, it evolves. But let's play that out.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I know how that happens. The system should be more transparent to make sure that they understand that those politicians. But many of them were shocked. When I told them this information, they trust me. One of them was a former government minister who said Hassim, this is, she's shocked by it, but now understands it. They were captured as well. But we were in a state of fear, Steve, as well. Let's not underestimate that. At the very beginning, we were all scared. We didn't know what we were dealing with. And of course, we have to have empathy for ourselves when you're in a state of fear, right? Albeit, you know, I think it was a big error to some degree and everybody was scared. And I don't think it was malicious to create that fear initially. It stops us being able psychologically inhibits your ability to engage in critical thinking. And all of us were in that position.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that put pressure on the then Secretary State Jeremy Hunt because the mail then decided they were going to go, right? And of course, that government, conservative government are particularly influenced by what the Daily Mail writes because they're traditionally one of their supporters. But there was a story around that time where they exposed, and it was on the front page, that government ministers, in terms of obesity strategy, how do we solve the obesity epidemic, had had 99 meetings with representatives of the food industry and not a single meeting with a public health doctor, for example.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not at all. I know many politicians, very senior people, cross party, some of them I call my friends, many of them come to me for medical advice, right? In fact, one of them, you know, he lost 100 pounds on my Piopi diet with Tom Watson, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, right? And these genuinely by and large are decent people that want to do the right thing. But they are also fed misinformation by lobbyists. They take as expert opinion or information stuff that has been curated for the purposes of the interests of big food or big pharma. You know, when I campaigned on getting the sugar tax introduced, I wrote articles in the BMJ and I started writing every newspaper. And I remember I thought we're going to win this because the front page of the Daily Mail was sugars and new tobacco.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Banging my head against the brick wall to some degree for about a decade. If there was more transparency in the system, we would have had better information even from the beginning. But that information was kept commercially confidential because of the system that really is geared towards supporting the interests of big pharma, not in the interest of people's health. And that's the key point here. That's all I'm saying”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Steve, I was that person too. So I'm with you on that 100%. I think where I'm taking this is the system, if it had been more transparent early on. And this is where I've been, you know.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Are in senior policy medical positions, establishment positions, are getting their information on the benefits and harms of the vaccine from the BBC.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To broad Something and said the same. And I'm not blaming Rachel Marder here. I'm just saying that the indoctrination that came through the mainstream media was so strong through people like Rachel Maddow. And why is that important, Steve? I had a conversation with the chairman of the British Medical Association in December 2021 when I was campaigning to overturn vaccine mandates for healthcare workers. He had access to Saji Javid. I had a previous rapport with Matt Hancock, but he had obviously left by then. And I spoke to his name's Chan Nagpur and I explained him everything I knew about the vaccine. after looking at data at that point. I hadn't published at this point, but I went through it in a logical way. Chairman of the BMA, by the way, not just some random person. And he said, Hasim, no one appears to have critically appraised the evidence on the vaccine as well as you have from our chair. Most of my colleagues,”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a problem. One, there wasn't true informed consent because those figures, those numbers weren't given to people about the prevention of infection, etc. And two, if you have an average serious harm rate of one in 800, any scientist, even regulators would have said, hold on a minute, this is way too high. This is too risky. And this is, by the way, Steve, only the short term, because remember, this vaccine didn't go through what other vaccines have gone through, which is five to ten years of safety testing. So if you throw all those caveats in and use informed consent, I can guarantee you with all of my knowledge, expertise, experience with patients when you engage in these conversations, most of those elderly people will probably have still refused it. But yes, I think there is a case to be made that the benefits may have outweighed the harms in those high-risk people at the very beginning in the short term. Absolutely.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, if I was to, I still think that. If okay, this is very nuanced but important. If the vaccine had only been offered to the high risk people at the beginning, say the over seventies or people with multiple risk factors, I think there is a case to be made, right? I'm going to counter that in a minute though, but there is a case to be made that there was overall benefit versus harm.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You would do the strain, and it may have been better to Steve. You're right. It probably was better, but it still numbers are still much smaller than what people were led to believe. And by the way, Steve, the narrative at the beginning, they kept changing the goalposts. Remember, it wasn't about preventing serious illness and death. It was all about preventing infection. You are not in America. You've seen it all over CNN, Rachel Madow, and she's saying it so passionately. If you take this vaccine, you are not going to get COVID. And calling anyone who questions it being a science deny. I mean, Jesus Christ.”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, but we've then talked about that, haven't we? Like, as in when you look at the data certainly beginning of 2023 that was looking over the previous year, 2022, you have to vaccinate 2,500 people to prevent one person getting serious ill with COVID, right? If you're over 70”
2024-07-25 · The Diary of a CEO · The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT