Kenneth Vatz
Kenneth Vatz
@kenv54.bsky.social
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.
More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years.

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More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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...
Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment
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August 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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.
Opinion | How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza
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July 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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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June 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Friedman says it all. Trump is simply killing the country, as he has done historically to everything else he’s been in charge of.
Opinion | Trump’s Gilded Gut Instinct
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June 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Opinion | They Were Waiting for Trump All Along
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May 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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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.
Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
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May 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Opinion | Harm From Antidepressants Is Real. Let’s Not Cede the Conversation to Kennedy.
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May 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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We are now officially a fascist secret police state. As if anyone doubted it.
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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April 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
From Masha Gessen, who knows it first hand.

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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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February 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is what we’ve got coming to the NIH.

Could things be any worse?

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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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November 16, 2024 at 8:12 PM