Aaron Kheriaty
Fellow
Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is a Fellow & Director of the Program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is a physician specializing in psychiatry and author of three books, including most recently, The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State (2022).
Dr. Kheriaty also serves as Senior Scholar and Fellow at the Brownstone Institute, Senior Fellow at the Zephyr Institute, Chief of Medical Ethics at The Unity Project, Scholar at the Paul Ramsey Institute, Fellow at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, and he serves on the advisory board at the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy.
Dr. Kheriaty graduated from the University of Notre Dame in philosophy and pre-medical sciences, earned his MD degree from Georgetown University, and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of California Irvine. For many years he was Professor of Psychiatry at UCI School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health, where he chaired the ethics committee. He also chaired the ethics committee at the California Department of State Hospitals for several years.
Dr. Kheriaty has authored books and articles for professional and lay audiences on bioethics, public health, political theory, social science, psychiatry, philosophy, religion, and culture. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Newsweek, The Federalist, Compact, The New Atlantis, Public Discourse, City Journal, and First Things. He has conducted print, radio, and television interviews on bioethics topics with The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NPR, EWTN, and Epoch TV.
On matters of public policy and healthcare he has addressed the California Medical Association and has testified before the California Senate Health Committee and the United States Senate. Dr. Kheriaty has consulted on Covid related ethical issues during the pandemic for the University of California Office of the President, the County of Orange Healthcare Agency, and the California Department of Public Health.
You can follow him on Twitter at @akheriaty and subscribe to his newsletter at AaronKheriaty.Substack.com
Dr. Fauci’s Amnesia
Aaron Kheriaty
Extraordinary things certainly have happened under his watch when science and politics fused.
Articles
COMPACT Magazine / December 15, 2022
Vaccine Propaganda and Coercion
Aaron Kheriaty
Institutions embraced these misguided policies with little public discussion and no debate.
Articles
Human Flourishing / November 25, 2022
Our Digital Panopticon
Aaron Kheriaty
How digital surveillance is gaining power for the biomedical security state.
Articles
American Greatness / November 3, 2022
The Rise of Biodigital Surveillance
Aaron Kheriaty
Those with economic interests in creating markets for their products—whether vaccines, digital surveillance products, or harvested data—will continue to deploy the carrots and sticks of access to medical care and other services to promote digital IDs.
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COMPACT Magazine / October 27, 2022
Checkmate
Aaron Kheriaty
The CDC finally comes around to acknowledge what I’ve been saying for a year about natural immunity. The University of California’s unjust vaccine mandate no longer has any legal ground to stand on.
Articles
Human Flourishing / August 15, 2022
Contagious Vaccines
Aaron Kheriaty
Government-funded research of lab-engineered viruses to create contagious self-spreading vaccines that bypass the consent of citizens. What could go wrong?
Articles
Human Flourishing / June 21, 2022
EPPC Scholar Files Expert Declaration in Suit by States Challenging Censorship by Biden Administration, Tech…
Aaron Kheriaty
EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Kheriaty has submitted an expert declaration in support of a legal challenge filed by Missouri and Louisiana alleging that President Biden and other leading federal officials colluded with Big Tech companies to censor and suppress free speech.
PDF / June 15, 2022
The WHO’s Pandemic Treaty
Aaron Kheriaty
We must oppose this to maintain national sovereignty and democratic norms.
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Substack / May 31, 2022
The Public Health Prophet We Did Not Heed
Aaron Kheriaty
Although lockdowns and other biosecurity proposals were circulating by 2005, mainstream public health did not embrace the biosecurity model until covid.
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Substack / May 10, 2022
CDC and the Surveillance State
Aaron Kheriaty
The CDC has been using phone tracking data to monitor schools and churches. The CIA has also been spying on Americans, with no judicial oversight and without congressional approval.
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Substack / May 4, 2022