Diabetes Association Removes Researchers Distributing Editorial at Conference
Security removed several researchers from an American Diabetes Association event after they handed out copies of an editorial from the group's own journal. The editorial criticized Trump administration policies on biomedical research.
prnewswire.comSecurity staff and police escorted a small group of researchers from an American Diabetes Association conference after the researchers handed out printouts of an editorial published in the group's journal Diabetes Care. The incident occurred outside a conference hall where Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, was scheduled to deliver a keynote address.
The Washington Post reported that the researchers distributed the material quietly.
One of the researchers is the journal's editor and co-authored the editorial. Video captured the confrontation. " The editorial criticizes Trump administration policies affecting biomedical research and calls on "concerned citizens" to contact their congressional representatives.
The ADA is a private organization. Some of the ousted researchers said they believed they were removed partly because the ADA feared repercussions from the Trump administration. The ADA offered no evidence that the researchers chanted, blocked access, disrupted an event, or otherwise interfered with the conference.
