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Alison Morrow

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

And when COVID hit, I started interviewing people who were censored or defamed, essentially, by my old industry of broadcast news or just generally the mainstream media, print journalism, too. I was fascinated by this trend to look at a doctor who had been in practice for, say, 20 or 30 years. And, like, overnight, they were just... a complete quack.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

And when COVID hit, I started interviewing people who were censored or defamed, essentially, by my old industry of broadcast news or just generally the mainstream media, print journalism, too. I was fascinated by this trend to look at a doctor who had been in practice for, say, 20 or 30 years. And, like, overnight, they were just... a complete quack.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

Like they were leading people to an early grave. They were defying all these scientific and medical norms. Like they were just totally crazy. And that didn't make rational sense to me that somebody who had saved many, many lives or decades was a leader in their field. One of them, Dr. David Brownstein, he's the guy who founded the Holistic Medicine Center in Detroit, Michigan.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

Like they were leading people to an early grave. They were defying all these scientific and medical norms. Like they were just totally crazy. And that didn't make rational sense to me that somebody who had saved many, many lives or decades was a leader in their field. One of them, Dr. David Brownstein, he's the guy who founded the Holistic Medicine Center in Detroit, Michigan.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

He was one of the first doctors I ever interviewed. He was actually told by the FTC when he was putting up early treatments that for COVID. This was like at the very beginning when nobody knew what was going on, what was working, what they were doing. He thought it would help that people would like it if he saved people's lives and he posted how he did it on the internet, on his own website.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

He was one of the first doctors I ever interviewed. He was actually told by the FTC when he was putting up early treatments that for COVID. This was like at the very beginning when nobody knew what was going on, what was working, what they were doing. He thought it would help that people would like it if he saved people's lives and he posted how he did it on the internet, on his own website.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

But no, apparently people didn't want to know. So the FTC came after him, told him that he had to shut it down. And I had him on my show. He was one of many, many doctors like that that I was profiling just so that people could get a different perspective on what they were seeing on, say, CNN, any number of these channels.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

But no, apparently people didn't want to know. So the FTC came after him, told him that he had to shut it down. And I had him on my show. He was one of many, many doctors like that that I was profiling just so that people could get a different perspective on what they were seeing on, say, CNN, any number of these channels.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

And when my bosses saw that, you mentioned Dr. Aaron Cariotti, he was the one who got flagged because apparently it was controversial to talk about natural immunity at the time. So YouTube took the video down. I went to Twitter and said, hey, I... I interviewed this doctor.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

And when my bosses saw that, you mentioned Dr. Aaron Cariotti, he was the one who got flagged because apparently it was controversial to talk about natural immunity at the time. So YouTube took the video down. I went to Twitter and said, hey, I... I interviewed this doctor.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

And if you think that there are doctors out there that aren't questioning mandates, that aren't questioning what's going on here, it's because you're not allowed to hear them. My bosses saw that and said, wait a second, you can't talk to people who are questioning mandates. We have a mandate. And I said, well, you're the government.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

And if you think that there are doctors out there that aren't questioning mandates, that aren't questioning what's going on here, it's because you're not allowed to hear them. My bosses saw that and said, wait a second, you can't talk to people who are questioning mandates. We have a mandate. And I said, well, you're the government.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

You can't tell me what I can do in my free time and who I can talk to in my free time. I'm allowed to talk to Dr. Cariotti. You know, what am I not allowed to go get coffee with him on the weekend and take a selfie and put it on my Instagram page? I mean, what are you saying here? And they're like, you can't, let these people talk about this stuff. It's undermining our policy.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

You can't tell me what I can do in my free time and who I can talk to in my free time. I'm allowed to talk to Dr. Cariotti. You know, what am I not allowed to go get coffee with him on the weekend and take a selfie and put it on my Instagram page? I mean, what are you saying here? And they're like, you can't, let these people talk about this stuff. It's undermining our policy.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

So I told him I was not gonna do that. I had a First Amendment right to continue, and they fired me. And so now we're suing.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

So I told him I was not gonna do that. I had a First Amendment right to continue, and they fired me. And so now we're suing.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

No, it's totally right. Jay Bhattacharya was on my show, actually. And I think one of the reasons that I was doing what I was doing was to just show that there were these very, like, I don't know, the best, it's like a normal person. You know, it's just normal people. They're not... I didn't find anything like extremist, even though now I kind of like wear that as a badge of honor.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

No, it's totally right. Jay Bhattacharya was on my show, actually. And I think one of the reasons that I was doing what I was doing was to just show that there were these very, like, I don't know, the best, it's like a normal person. You know, it's just normal people. They're not... I didn't find anything like extremist, even though now I kind of like wear that as a badge of honor.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

He actually said that somebody, who was it? Dr. Collins told him, said he was a fringe epidemiologist or something like that in one of the emails that got released in the Twitter files.

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Alison Morrow: Emmy-Winning Journalist FIRED For Refusing To Censor Interview With Doctor, Launches Lawsuit Against Washington State – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 431

He actually said that somebody, who was it? Dr. Collins told him, said he was a fringe epidemiologist or something like that in one of the emails that got released in the Twitter files.