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
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.
Articles
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.
Articles
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.
Articles
Substack / May 4, 2022
The Battle for Control of Your Mind
Aaron Kheriaty
These new digital surveillance and control mechanisms will be no less oppressive for being virtual rather than physical.
Articles
Brownstone Institute / April 29, 2022
The New Normal
Aaron Kheriaty
Lockdowns were not just an untested public health measure. They were a new paradigm of governance.
Articles
Substack / April 11, 2022
The Spectre of Asymptomatic Spread
Aaron Kheriaty
It would be hard to devise a better method than the widespread myth of asymptomatic spread combined with quarantining the healthy to destroy the fabric of society and to divide us.
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Substack / March 31, 2022
Where Is the Bio-Fascist State Headed?
Aaron Kheriaty
In these proposed laws we see the welding of public health, digital technologies, and the police powers of the state into an invasive model of surveillance and control.
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Substack / March 31, 2022
An Open Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra on Ending the Covid-19 Public Health “Emergency”
Ryan T. Anderson
Human flourishing requires both public health and individual liberty and an appropriate balance between these goods when they conflict. We know that human beings flourish in community; we are social by nature. As such, we should not be surprised that government Covid-19 regulations mandating school closures, lockdowns, masking, and vaccination have isolated us from our fellow citizens and imposed significant attendant harms. It is time to declare this emergency over and once again let people take responsibility for themselves.
Public Discourse / March 18, 2022
