Kenneth A. Vatz

@KenV54

Neurologist. CommunityHealth-Chicago Expat Yinzer. @umich At @pennmedicine when Ben Franklin asked if we could keep our Republic. At BlueSky, same user name.

Winnetka, IL

Joined February 2009

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jul 6

How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTOpinion

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jul 3

Trump Administration Live Updates: House Passes Sweeping Bill to Fulfill President’s Domestic Agenda nytimes.com/live/2025/07/0… via @NYTimes SHAME. Nothing but SHAME. But the Republicans and Trump are incapable of feeling shame. This bill is going to deprive millions of healthcare.

KenV54's tweet card. The measure extending tax cuts and slashing the social safety net goes to President Trump for his signature, but the debate over it exposed deep rifts in his party.

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jun 24

An excellent article on autism, including its current political ramifications, by @AllenFrancesMD @MarkLRuffalo @dawso007 @NTFabiano @DrAnnieHickox @ProfRobHoward nytimes.com/2025/06/23/opi…

KenV54's tweet card. The addition of Asperger’s syndrome to the D.S.M. had enormous unintended consequences.

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jun 4

nytimes.com/2025/06/03/opi… via @NYTOpinion Friedman says it all about our economic disaster that is, and is to come, under Trump.

KenV54's tweet card. Trump is governing by unchecked gut impulses, with little or no homework or coordination among agencies. The results could be disastrous.

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · May 29

Schizophrenia as a biological condition? Opinions, pls, on this recent Open Evidence AI search (with references). It was dismissed out of hand by another poster. @ProfRobHoward @DrAnnieHickox @NTFabiano @dawso007 @JRBneuropsiq @MarkLRuffalo and others. openevidence.com/ask/f9f0c601-b…

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · May 18

nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opi… via @NYTOpinion Jamelle Bouie says it all, as usual

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · May 11

nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opi… via @NYTOpinion We won’t know, any more than than you know when you’ve crossed the event horizon of a black hole. We’ve probably already crossed it, when it comes to authoritarianism. Levitsky discusses a way out, if it isn’t already too late.

KenV54's tweet card. And how exactly can we tell whether America has crossed the line?

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · May 7

nytimes.com/2025/05/03/opi… via @NYTOpinion A balanced article about ADs, their benefits and their adverse effects, by ⁦@awaisaftab⁩ Please repost. ⁦@ProfRobHoward⁩ ⁦@dawso007⁩ ⁦@DrAnnieHickox⁩ ⁦@NTFabiano⁩

KenV54's tweet card. Prozac is nearly 40 years old. Why are there still unanswered questions?

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Apr 19

nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opi… via @NYTOpinion The horror of Trump.

KenV54's tweet card. Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jul 22

nytimes.com/2025/07/22/hea… via @NYTimes How do the “anti-med” people feel about this one for what is a potentially fatal condition—post-partum Dep? (Not just tagging them.) @joannamoncrieff @justin_garson @ProfRobHoward @DrAnnieHickox @sanilrege @dawso007 @NTFabiano @JRBneuropsiq

KenV54's tweet card. Some women’s symptoms improved quickly after taking the pill, but depression persisted in others. Doctors are trying to learn which patients benefit, and why some don’t.

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jul 12

I'm on the waitlist for @perplexity_ai's new agentic browser, Comet: perplexity.ai/comet

KenV54's tweet card. Browse at the speed of thought.

Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jun 29

Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes

KenV54's tweet card. 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 A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jun 28

Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain nytimes.com/2025/06/28/wor… via @NYTimes Prof Timothy Snyder has the right idea. Wish I could do that.

KenV54's tweet card. The University of Toronto has attracted several U.S. professors amid turmoil between American higher-education institutions and the Trump administration.

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sarah@sahouraxo · Jun 22

This cartoon was drawn in 2017. 8 years later, and it’s still dead-on.

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Jun 21

From heart tissue to DNA samples, Weizmann scientists mourn work vaporized in Iran attack - The Times of Israel. ⁦@ProfRobHoward⁩ ⁦@NTFabiano⁩ ⁦@dawso007⁩ apple.news/A6c2yWyf9TFaUV…

KenV54's tweet card. Some 45 labs in the prestigious sciences center were damaged and might take years -- and tens of millions -- to rebuild. Multiple researchers lost their life's work

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Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · May 31

“The U.S. is on the same path as Hungary and Venezuela, whose autocratic leaders moved very quickly to destroy their previous constitutional orders and substitute personalistic rule. In Hungary and Venezuela, wholly new constitutions were written in the first year, and now the…

Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Apr 30

How public health has been upended in Trump’s first 100 days It’s a tragedy. And likely irreversible. Hard to believe how much damage one Administration can do in three months’ time. wapo.st/3Gwi1nE

KenV54's tweet card. More than 20,000 jobs were eliminated, billions of dollars in scientific research has been threatened or paused, and a budget draft proposes a major restructuring of Health and Human Services.

Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Apr 18

Bernstein and Mahler ⁦@LeonidasPlatan1⁩ theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

KenV54's tweet card. In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.

Kenneth A. Vatz@KenV54 · Apr 14

nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/… via @NYTimes We are in the organized beginnings of a fascist police state in the US, and no one seems to be fazed by it.

KenV54's tweet card. Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.

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Dr Jaclynn Moskow@DrJaclynnMoskow · Apr 6

Why, but of course I found psych meds amongst the shells today

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