Physician scientists escorted out of ADA meeting by police
Police escorted physician-scientists out of the American Diabetes Association annual scientific sessions in New Orleans as the group handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. Conference security told the researchers they could no longer attend the sessions and removed them from the convention center. The editorial was published in a peer-reviewed journal and the scientists were distributing it to raise concerns about recent federal research funding and oversight policy shifts. The removals raise questions about how medical meetings will handle political criticism and the distribution of policy critiques at scientific conferences.
Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Ali16This should go to the @aclu.org People have a right to disagree with the government. It's a right, not a privilege, to criticize our government, they do not have the right to steal marketing materials, nor to shut up speech they don't like.
SseGreek6So far, all the major associations are standing by and keeping quiet. It is sad to see how they are capitulation. Science is dead here.
Max the Silent2Why? No 1A in America now?
If I'm understanding this correctly (?) it seems like the American Diabetes Association is disavowing their own journal's editorial team for criticizing the Trump admin's science cuts
David Burbach 🇺🇸24I assume the ADA asked for these members to be removed from the convention site, I find it very unlikely NOLA police showed up on their own to root out dissenters
Pareto3Science censorship, meet Barbara Streisand. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
felinecannonball2The executives seem to have been sourced from for-profit companies, venture capital, etc. Pretty common phenomenon. Quite a fee universities have the same admin-labor disconnect. Leads to weird responses to federal funding cuts, infringement on academic freedom, ideas about chatbots.
