Dr Aaron Kheriaty earned his MD degree from Georgetown University, and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of California Irvine. He was a Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California Irvine and the Director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health before he was fired in December 2021, following his challenging of their vaccine mandates on the grounds of natural immunity and informed consent. – [BIO]
On November 1, 2022 Dr Aaron Kheriaty released his book The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State which “which details how the COVID pandemic paved the way for the implementation of a totalitarian one world government, where human rights and freedoms will no longer exist.” Warning: “The coronavirus pandemic conferred enormous power on certain government officials. They have no intention of giving it up.”
Kheriaty became chief of medical ethics at the Unity Project and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty Official:
- Aaron Kheriaty website – HERE,
- Twitter/ X – HERE
- Human Flourishing Substack – HERE
- Senior Brownstone Institute Counselor – ARTICLES
I began this page more than a year ago, it has been in my drafts. I will catalogue below my bookmarks for Dr Kheriaty. This will be but a snapshot of interviews and articles by another of the ethical freedom warrior doctors and scientists that were raised to “awakened” public awareness due to the COVID-19 pandemic measures.
Links in reverse chronological order
Content below will be continuously added to
2025
February 5, 2025 – Brownstone Institute: Court Filings Reveal More Government Lies about Censorship by Aaron Kheriaty – READ, source The Federalist by Joy Pullmann – READ
- “Missouri [v Biden] plaintiffs include the states of Missouri and Louisiana, Health Freedom Louisiana co-director Jill Hines and Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft, and internationally recognized research scientists and medical doctors Martin Kulldorff, Aaron Kheriaty, and Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University medical professor who is now President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health.”
- “Pullman goes on to explain how the government’s response is characteristic of repeated patterns meant to evade legal responsibility and cover up unconstitutional abuses of government power:..”
- “The pattern goes beyond just blocking access to information and includes efforts to vilify any critics of the regime. CISA, a little-known agency that I have written about several times here in relation to our case, coordinated these efforts to silence and slander anyone who opposed the government’s actions. Furthermore, not only was the government censoring its critics, but it was also engaged in age-old propaganda techniques to “flood the zone” of public discussion with lies and falsehoods (propaganda is always the flip side of censorship):…”
- “As I have described previously, in an attempt to hide its fingerprints the government suborned quasi-private entities, like the Stanford Internet Observatory, to conduct its censorship work. I describe them as “quasi-private” (i.e., really public) because they are government-organized, government-funded through grants, and staffed by former government officials….”
- “The truth about government censorship continues to emerge for those willing to examine the evidence. Regardless of the final legal outcome in our case, we are succeeding through the discovery process in shedding much-needed light on the government’s operations. Armed with this information, Americans can decide whether this is the kind of regime they want to live under.”
2024
December 27, 2024 – Human Flourishing Substack: Government Censorship on Covid Began Before Lockdowns – New documents from America First Legal demonstrate that CISA was censoring covid narratives even earlier than previously thought – READ
December 19, 2024 – America First Legal: America First Legal’s Lawsuit Against CISA Further Exposes Deep State Reliance on the Censorship Industrial Complex to Monitor Social Media Narratives on COVID-19 – READ, CREDIT
October 4, 2024 – Brownstone Institute: Homeschooling Gave Medicine a Blueprint by Aaron Kheriaty – READ
- “… our medical institutions—from hospitals and licensing boards to medical schools and professional societies—are failing us. The complex of problems in many of these institutions makes reform or repair, in the short term at least, impractical and perhaps impossible. Too many vested financial or other interests will not readily relinquish their territory….
- Still, I want to suggest here a rough blueprint for a way forward….We need to plant seeds that might not fully germinate in our lifetimes, thinking in 50- to 100-year increments….In 1973, just over fifty years ago, there were 13,000 homeschoolers; today there are 5 million.” [How many of these are driven by forced public “medical” intervention?]
September 12, 2024 – Human Flourishing Substack: Why We Are Sick– How monopolized, industrialized, managerialist medicine is harming us and how we can remedy our ills. – READ
- “Whether the influence of big pharma that profits from sickness, compromised public health agencies controlled by the very industries they are supposed to regulate, a biosecurity state that tends to jump from one declared health emergency to the next, medicine is now in danger of causing more sickness than it heals.” [Has it ever healed, or does it push diagnoses into remission and/or simply quash/mask symptoms, and not address the underlying cause? ]
July 29, 2024 – Brownstone Institute: Missouri v. Biden/Kennedy v. Biden Update – by Aaron Kheriaty – READ, Substack – READ
- “…back in 2023 the District Court combined (enjoined) our Missouri v. Biden case against government censorship with a similar case, Kennedy v. Biden, filed in the same court by plaintiffs Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Children’s Health Defense (Kennedy’s nonprofit advocacy group), and Connie Sampognaro. This means Kennedy and his co-plaintiffs can utilize all our case’s documents on discovery; and for our purposes, he is considered, as it were, a co-plaintiff.
- …In documents we’ve obtained on discovery, Kennedy was named several times, and specifically identified posts of his were targeted for censorship by government officials. If he does not have standing to bring the case then nobody does, and government censorship can proceed without any citizens having any legal recourse.”
February 9, 2024 – America First Legal: America First Legal Files Brief at Supreme Court on Behalf of Representative Jim Jordan and 44 Members of Congress About the Federal Government’s Unconstitutional Censorship of Free Speech on Social Media – READ
- Murthy v. Missouri – is ” the landmark case regarding the government’s unconstitutional censorship of free speech on social media.”
- “During initial discovery in Missouri v. Biden, the plaintiffs note on Dec. 23, Twitter claimed it had communicated with just 11 federal officials about online censorship efforts. Yet after tycoon Elon Musk bought Twitter months later, the company then revised that number upward to 84 federal officials.” – REF
2023
October 25, 2023 – The Kennedy Beacon Podcast w/ John Leake Episode 01: Doctor Aaron Kheriaty Talks Censorship & Supreme Court Lawsuit – WATCH
- John Leake talks with Aaron Kheriaty, MD about the landmark Missouri vs. Biden case.
October 25, 2023 – Substack: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Missouri v. Biden – READ, Courageous Discourse – CREDIT
- Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and his co-plaintiffs are leading us out of censorship darkness. “Bravo to Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and his fellow plaintiffs for taking their landmark free speech case against the President known as “Joe Biden” to the U.S. Supreme Court. ” –REF
- The plaintiffs are: The State of Missouri, the State of Louisiana, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Jim Hoft, Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, and Jill Hines.
October 2, 2023 – The Sun New York: Meet the Physician Who Stepped Forward To Tackle the Leviathan of Government Censorship – The scope and breadth of the Biden administration’s anti-‘disinformation’ campaign is unlike anything that we’ve seen in the past, Aaron Kheriaty suggests – READ
June 1, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: The Deplatforming of the “Disinformation Dozen”: More Coverage [Part 4] by Tracy Beanz – READ, Substack – READ
May 29, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: The Struggle for Free Speech: More Reporting on Missouri v. Biden from Tracy Beanz – by Aaron Kheriaty – READ
- “Literally 3 days after Biden took office [January 21, 2021], the government’s censorship operation was flying. The White House immediately launched a pressure campaign on social media platforms to suppress supposed “COVID misinformation.””
- The Surgeon General [Dr Vivek Murthy] launched his signature “disinformation” initiative at a Virality Project event at the Stanford Internet Observatory.
- Biden himself publicly pressured platforms on July 16, 2021
May 28, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: The Censors are Exposed: Major Update to Missouri v. Biden from Tracy Beanz – by Aaron Kheriaty – READ
- May 24, 2023 – Tracy Beanz – Missouri v. Biden – “a virtual handbook to government censorship based on what limited discovery has been provided so far.” – Mega THREAD
May 16, 2023 – Ask Dr. Drew: Multiple Assassination Attempts Against Anti-WHO Politicians As Pandemic Treaty Deadline Approaches w/ Dr. Meryl Nass & Dr. Aaron Kheriaty – WATCH
March 30, 2023 – Aaron responds to Tweet: “The U.S. Senate has just voted 68-23 to end the COVID-19 “national emergency” that has been in place since 2020.” – “Better late than never” – TWEET
March 21, 2023 – Aaron Kheriaty on Twitter: “BREAKING: Important update in our Missouri v. Biden case. The judge denied government defendants’ motion to dismiss the case”… – TWEET, THREAD, The CASE, SUBSTACK
February 5, 2023 – Dr Mercola: The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State- Interview with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty – WATCH, LISTEN
January 27, 2023 – The Hill: Federal judge blocks California misinformation law – READ
- “A federal judge has temporarily blocked a California law intended to prevent doctors from spreading COVID-19 misinformation or disinformation to patients, finding that it is “unconstitutionally vague.” “
- A group of five doctors and two nonprofit advocacy groups sued in November after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed Assembly Bill 2098 into law the month before.
January 14, 2023 – UncoverDC: The 6 Most Shocking Recent Revelations of Government Censorship by Tracy Beanz – in-depth coverage of the landmark Missouri v. Biden censorship case… READ, CREDIT
- 1. CISA considers your thoughts “Cognitive Infrastructure”
- 2. Rob Flaherty coerced Facebook to ban and censor the vaccine injured, despite acknowledging their posts were true and didn’t break the Terms of Service.
- “Rob Flaherty is the White House Director of Digital Strategy and a senior advisor to President Joe Biden.”
- 3. Flaherty wanted Facebook to take more action in censoring the encrypted chat program “WhatsApp”
- 4. Flaherty wanted to know what Facebook was doing to censor vaccine claims that were “dubious” but not false
- 5. Joe Biden was inadvertently swept up in the censorship algorithm the White House forced Instagram to implement
- 6. The office of First Lady Jill Biden was also involved in censoring Americans on Twitter
January 3, 2023 – American Though Leaders – Technocratic Medicine – Dr Aaron Kheriaty: Self-Spreading Vaccines, Transhumanist Ideology, and Government Gag Orders–The New Technocracy Threatening Hippocratic Medicine and the Nuremberg Code – WATCH, EXCERPT
- Chief Nerd: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty Explains the Complicated History of the Nuremberg Code “this legal concept of Crimes Against Humanity” – EXCERPT
- For 12 years the Nazi requiem governed under Article 48 of the Weimar constitution which “allowed the German president to declare a state of emergency in Germany in times of national danger and to rule as a dictator for short periods of time. After the Reichstag Fire of 1933, Hitler would rely upon the precedent of Article 48 to pass the Enabling Act, which gave him truly unlimited dictatorial powers” – WATCH
2022
December 15, 2022 – Compact Magazine: Dr. Fauci’s Amnesia by Aaron Kheriaty – READ
- Last week, The New York Times published a guest essay in praise of Dr. Anthony Fauci, written by Dr. Anthony Fauci! titled Anthony Fauci: A Message to the Next Generation of Scientists – ARCHIVE
December 9, 2022 – CHD | Friday Roundtable: The New Abnormal With Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. – WATCH
November 30, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: The Evil of Coerced Medicine – READ
- “…I argued publicly in the pages of the Wall Street Journal in June 2021 that university vaccine mandates violated foundational principles of medical ethics, including the principle of informed consent….Although the minimal conditions for justifying vaccine mandates were never close to being met, institutions embraced these misguided policies with little meaningful public discussion and no debate.”
November 19, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: Technocracy and Totalitarianism by Aaron Kheriaty – READ, CREDIT
- “Scientism is the philosophical claim—which cannot be proven scientifically—that science is the only valid form of knowledge. Anyone who begins a sentence with the phrase, “Science says . . . ” is likely in the grip of scientism.”
November 1, 2022 – “One year ago today, @UCIrvineSOM placed me on unpaid suspension after I challenged the UC vaccine mandate in federal court. They fired me the following month. Today I published this book.” – TWEET
- “In the space of a few weeks in early 2020, Americans witnessed the imposition of previously unimagined social controls by the biomedical security state—the unelected technocrats who suddenly enjoyed nearly absolute power to incarcerate, isolate, and medicate the entire population.”
October 29, 2022 – Bannons War Room: Dr Aaron Kheriaty On The Biomedical Security State Pushed By Governments Following The Pandemic – EXCERPT
October 28, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: Kheriaty vs. University of California – READ,
- The Daily Wire: This Doctor Witnessed The Worst Of COVID And Still Refused The Jab. So UC Irvine Fired Him. – “I was given no opportunity to contact my patients, students, residents, or colleagues and let them know I would suddenly disappear.” – READ
- “Shortly after I published the Wall Street Journal piece arguing that university vaccine mandates were unethical, the University of California, my employer, promulgated its vaccine mandate.
October 27, 2022 – Washington Times: Vaccine propaganda and coercion – Institutions embraced these misguided policies with little public discussion and no debate – by Dr Aaron Kheriaty – READ, CREDIT
October 22, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: The Quarantine of Healthy Populations by Aaron Kheriaty – READ
- Lockdowns were never part of conventional public health measures
- The full significance of what transpired in 2020 may have escaped our attention.”
October 19, 2022 – Daily Wire: This Doctor Witnessed The Worst Of COVID And Still Refused The Jab. So UC Irvine Fired Him. – ARCHIVE
September 22, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: Uncovering the Army of Federal Censors by Aaron Kheriaty – READ
- …the executive branch of the federal government has been colluding with social media to censor any content on social media platforms — Twitter, YouTube (owned by Google), and LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft), Facebook and Instagram (both owned by Meta) — any content that questions, challenges, or contradicts the government’s covid policies.”
September 1, 2022 – New Civil Liberties Alliance | Press Release: NCLA Suit Uncovers Army of Federal Bureaucrats Coercing Social-Media Companies to Censor Speech – ARCHIVE
- “The New Civil Liberties Alliance, the Attorney General of Missouri, and the Attorney General of Louisiana, have filed a lawsuit that blows the lid off a sprawling federal censorship regime that will shock the conscience of Americans. The joint statement on discovery disputes in the lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., reveals scores of federal officials across at least eleven federal agencies have secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech federal officials disfavor. This unlawful enterprise has been wildly successful.”
August 15, 2022 – Human Flourishing Substack: Checkmate – READ
- 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.
June 27, 2022 – California Senate Committee on Business, Professions, and Economic Development – Dr. Aaron Kheriaty’s testimony in opposition to Assembly Bill 2098 – WATCH, READ, CREDIT,
- “The Senate gave our side a total of 3 minutes to testify, which [Attorney Laura Powell ] and I had to share between us. Democracy!” – the Bill passed!
- California Plotting to Punish Medical Dissent – Bill 2098 “sponsored by Senator Pan—who has been in Pharma’s back pocket for years and the source of much legislative health policy mischief in my home state —would give the medical board the authority to punish any physicians who challenge the safety and efficacy of covid vaccines.” – READ
May 11, 2022 – American Though Leaders: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty on the Rise of the Biomedical Security State: The Merger of Public Health, Surveillance Tech, and Policing Power – WATCH, transcript ARCHIVE
- Discussed is the “egregious violations of medical ethics” Dr Kheriaty has seen over the course of the pandemic and the deadly consequences of these policies. Among working-age Americans, there’s been an unprecedented 40 percent rise in all-cause mortality—most of which is not due to COVID-19.
This welding of public health with digital technologies of surveillance and control and the police powers of the state allows for intrusions on our privacy, on our bodily autonomy that are unprecedented in history.
…I think this biomedical security state apparatus that has been put in place during the pandemic will remain in place and will be redeployed for other purposes…
Dr Aaron Kheriaty
May 5, 2022 – US District Courts: Missouri v. Biden (3:22-cv-01213) was filed in District Court, W.D. Louisiana – – DOCUMENTS, Court Listener – READ
- “The complaint alleged that the US Government was not only threatening and coercing social media companies to censor Americans on social media, but they were also working with social media companies to accomplish that goal.” – REF
- Kheriaty is a plaintiff in the Missouri v. Biden case, filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, in which they argue that the Biden administration is colluding with Big Tech to illegally censor Americans. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., — two authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, an early critique of lockdowns and school closures — have also joined the case. – REF
- “Since it was initially filed, it has taken quite a trip through the court system. The complaint has been amended three times, with the most recent amendment being to transform the case into a class suit—this due to the overwhelming evidence of broad harm to the constitutional rights of all Americans.” – REF
April 9, 2022 – Epoch Times | American Thought Leaders: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty on the Rise of the Biomedical Security State: The Merger of Public Health, Surveillance Tech, and Policing Powers – WATCH
“This vaccine passport system gives unprecedented level of surveillance, monitoring. and control to many different institutions, not just the government…That’s going to be used for other purposes…. Right, there is going to be another public health crisis. There are social issues already in play that over the last year have been redefined as public health issues. Climate change would be one obvious example… I think this same infrastructure is probably going to be deployed to again try to control [the] movements of the populations.”
Dr Kheriaty
March 2, 2022 – Tucker Carlson Today: Dr Kheriaty on Vax Mandates – WATCH, EXCERPT, READ
February 24, 2022 – Planet Lockdown Series: Aaron Kheriaty, MD – WATCH,
January 24, 2022 – US Senator Ron Johnson : COVID-19: A Second Opinion (5 hours) – WATCH, FULL,
- Dr Aaron Kheriaty Testimony @1h50min “Thank you, Senator, for that introduction, for this opportunity to speak” … – TIMESTAMP, TRANSCRIPT
January 13, 2022 – The Highwire Episode 250: GAME, SET, MATCH – FULL, “Natural Immunity is our way out of the Pandemic” – EXCERPT, BACKUP
- “NBA superstar, Jonathan Isaac, has been on the frontlines of pro-athletes pushing back on Covid-19 vaccine mandates, and doctors are joining his team. Former UCI Director of Medical Ethics, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, who has also been in the limelight for refusing to get vaccinated, joins Isaac on The HighWire for a deep dive into why they are defending their natural immunity to Covid.”
January 2, 2022 – LA Times: UC Irvine fires physician who refused to get vaccinated, claiming ‘natural immunity’ – READ
2021
November 1, 2021 – Book Release: The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State – TWEET
September 9, 2021 – Fox News: California professor sues over vaccine mandate, says he has natural immunity – By Emma Colton – WATCH
July 5, 2021 – The Federalist: How College COVID Vaccine Mandates Put Students In Danger co-authored by Aaron Kheriaty, along with Risch, McCullough et al – ARCHIVE
- “More than 520 of America’s 5,300 colleges and universities, approximately 10 percent, have announced students must be fully vaccinated against COVID before they return for fall classes.”
- [Note. By 2021 the media had already shortened COVID-19 to simply coronavirus disease i.e. COVID – pay attention to the language!]
June 14, 2021 – Wall Street Journal | Opinion: University Vaccine Mandates Violate Medical Ethics – College students aren’t guinea pigs. – By Aaron Kheriaty and Gerard V. Bradley – READ, CREDIT [The article that got Aaron fired!]
- Public declaration that “university vaccine mandates violated foundational principles of medical ethics, including the principle of informed consent.” – REF
- “Shortly after I published [this] Wall Street Journal piece arguing that university vaccine mandates were unethical, the University of California, my employer, promulgated its vaccine mandate. I decided then it was time to put a stake in the ground: I filed lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the university’s vaccine mandate on behalf of COVID-recovered individuals [i.e. naturally immune]. It was already clear from many robust studies that natural immunity following infection was superior to vaccine-mediated immunity in terms of efficacy and duration of immunity.” – REF, REF2
- “At [this] time I was an unlikely candidate to challenge the prevailing vaccination policies. I was deeply embedded in the academic medical establishment, where I had spent my entire career. In my capacity as a psychiatric consultant on the medical wards and in the emergency department, I had suited up in PPE (personal protective equipment) to see hundreds of hospitalized COVID patients, witnessing the worst that this illness can do. Nobody needed to explain to me how bad this virus could be for some individuals, especially the elderly with co-occurring medical conditions who were at significant risk of bad outcomes when infected.” – REF2
- “I had worked every day for over a year to develop and advance the university’s and state’s pandemic mitigation measures. But as the prevailing COVID policies unfolded, I became increasingly concerned, and eventually disillusioned. Our one-size-fits-all coercive mandates failed to take account of individualized risks and benefits, particularly age-stratified risks, which are central to the practice of good medicine. We ignored foundational principles of public health, like transparency and the health of the entire population. With little resistance we abandoned foundational ethical principles.” – REF
May 31, 2021 – America Out Loud: The McCullough Report podcast: Monkeypox? Are We Going Bananas? – LISTEN, READ, TRANSCRIPT
2020
July 2020 – Aaaon “contracts the virus” – considers himself as having COVID-19 – REF
- “I contracted the virus in July 2020, and despite my efforts to self-isolate, passed it to my wife and five children. Living and breathing COVID for a year, I eagerly awaited a safe and effective vaccine for those that were still not immune to this virus. I happily served on the Orange County COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force, and I advocated in the Los Angeles Times that the elderly and sick be prioritized for vaccination, and that the poor, disabled, and underserved be given ready access to vaccines.”
1976
The year Aaron Kheriaty was born
1976 – Ivan Illich publishes his prophetic book, Medical Nemesis : The Expropriation of Health – READ
- The book “opens with the startling claim, “The medical establishment has become a major threat to health.”
- “The book explores the epidemic of iatrogenic disease—that is, illnesses caused by medical interventions—which has only worsened in the nearly half century since this book was published….
- Illich’s basic thesis was that some systems, including our healthcare system, improve outcomes only until they expand to a certain industrialized size, monopolized scope, and level of technological power. Once this threshold is reached, without intending to do so, these systems paradoxically cannot help but inflict harm and undermine their stated aims. Illich diagnosed “the disease of medical progress” in its early stages; I believe this disease has now [2024] reached its advanced stage.” – REF
