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Kenneth Vatz

@kenv54.bsky.social
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Neurologist. Curmudgeon. UMich. And at UPenn at time Ben Franklin said we had a republic if we could keep it. I later told him he was very prescient.

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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Courtesy of Dr. Allen Frances, esteemed US psychiatrist, from X. Patients with new onset severe mental illness should be evaluated neurologically. V @dranniehickox.bsky.social x.com/bmjmentalhea...
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BMJ Mental Health on X: "New UK study shows people with severe mental illness have higher rates of many neurological conditions, including dementia, epilepsy & Parkinson’s, from years before diagnosis to years after. Highlights need to understand links between brain & mental health. Link: https://t.co/Q7NvnofVuv" / X
New UK study shows people with severe mental illness have higher rates of many neurological conditions, including dementia, epilepsy & Parkinson’s, from years before diagnosis to years after. Highlights need to understand links between brain & mental health. Link: https://t.co/Q7NvnofVuv
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years. @dranniehickox.bsky.social @awaisaftab.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/m...
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More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
What Trump has done to our relationship with Canada. Another disaster. ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...
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Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o... We’ve got 3 narcissistic sociopaths, Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin, running the world, and this is what you get.
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Opinion | How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (Gift Article)
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article)
More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o... Friedman says it all. Trump is simply killing the country, as he has done historically to everything else he’s been in charge of.
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Opinion | Trump’s Gilded Gut Instinct
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o... @jamellebouie.net says it all, as usual.
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Opinion | They Were Waiting for Trump All Along
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o... One answer is, we won’t know, any more than than you know when you’ve crossed the event horizon of a black hole. The other answer is, we’ve probably already crossed it, when it comes to authoritarianism. Levitsky discusses a way out, if it isn’t already too late.
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Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o... A well balanced article on ADs by @awaisaftab.bsky.social
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Opinion | Harm From Antidepressants Is Real. Let’s Not Cede the Conversation to Kennedy.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o... The horror of Trump.
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Opinion | The Emergency Is Here (Gift Article)
Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u... We are now officially a fascist secret police state. As if anyone doubted it.
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Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees
Supervisors deliver bad news across NIH, CDC
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
From Masha Gessen, who knows it first hand. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
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Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey (Gift Article)
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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When Hospitals Cave to Trump, Health Workers Must Disobey
What makes the guidelines issued by NYU Langone and NYC Health + Hospitals especially foreboding is that both memos directly contravene recent guidance.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16...
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Beyond Antivirals: Alternative Therapies for Long COVID
Long COVID or Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) is a condition characterized by numerous lingering symptoms that persist for weeks to months following the viral illness. While treatme...
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h... I’m an optimist. I don’t think things can get any worse.
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Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target (Gift Article)
The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is what we’ve got coming to the NIH. Could things be any worse? www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...
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Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s (Likely) NIH Pick
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a loud voice from the fringes.
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Kenneth Vatz @kenv54.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/w... A major article and a stark warning.
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Just How Dangerous Is Europe’s Rising Far Right?
Anti-immigration parties with fascist roots — and an uncertain commitment to democracy — are now mainstream.
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