Physician scientists escorted out of ADA meeting by police
New Orleans police escorted several physician-scientists out of the American Diabetes Association's annual scientific sessions after the researchers handed out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration's changes to U.S. biomedical research. Officers removed the scientists from the convention center, told them they could no longer attend the sessions and threatened arrest; one of those barred was scheduled to present at the meeting. MedPage Today published video showing officers physically removing the researchers as they distributed the editorial, and the incident raises questions about academic freedom at a major scientific conference.
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...
Ali52This 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.
SseGreek17So far, all the major associations are standing by and keeping quiet. It is sad to see how they are capitulation. Science is dead here.
Gary Peitzmeier14And cops wonder why we say ACAB. They aren't here for us. They protect the rich and elite class, at their own peril. How the fuck does this country survive another 29 months of this shit. Then independent dipfucks and impatient people will blame the left for not fixing this overnight.
ECP12The article quotes someone who says that they violated the rules of conduct that they agreed to in advance. What were the rules they allegedly violated? And why isn't this information included in the article?
Lucia Peixoto10The ADA leadership called to cops on the editor in chief of its flagship journal and one of its previous presidents? Some of these people nee dot answer questions: diabetes.org/about-us/boa...
Max the Silent10Why? No 1A in America now?
Nate Brought8Did ADA ask the authorities to intervene? If so, why? If not, wtf are local cops in New Orleans roaming an ADA meeting at all, and why would they take it on themselves to enforce the dear leader's fascist agenda?
Valentenya the climate cat 🍉 🐈⬛5The US isn't "descending into fascism", it's already there. Multiple western "democracies" aren't far behind. If people don't fight back more we're all screwed.
TeeGee2I have diabetes and they will never see another penny from me.
CKJohnsonBK 🇺🇦🇬🇱2I assume the police were involved because the rule-breaking members were told to leave and they didn’t. But who called the police? Who are the Trumpalos in the American Diabetes Association? Name and shame.
Paddleboat Galactica2“Who called the cops” is the question - do we know?
Ken2Those cops are wearing the wrong uniform.
Today, the American Diabetes Association had security remove from their conference scientists who were handing out an Editorial on the harms caused by the Trump admin. “These attendees were escorted out by our…security because they demonstrated behavior not consistent with this code of conduct”.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD146I have to tell y’all that the fact that many professional societies are falling down in this moment is pathetic.
Biophiliac23Had to watch. I'm dumbstruck. I mean, kicking medical doctors out of an American Diabetes Association meeting for handing out an article published by the American Diabetes Association? We need some heroes
mossflowerwood.bsky.social17Interesting My spouse just attended the AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association) conference this week in NOLA just before this one began Also a gathering of scientists and med experts.They trashed the Trump administration from one end to the other in many of their sessions No one said boo
Chris Labarthe15I mean, the *ADA* of all organizations! The current DHHS Secretary thinks people with Type 1 should be genetically eradicated, and people with Type 2 have only themselves to blame, and that both groups should buy unproven snake oil and eat unhealthy fad diets.
AnniePdD12ADA obeys in advance 💀
Rudely Van Gelder11> ADA's media team said that five registrants were removed for violating code of conduct rules that they agreed to when registering for the meeting. < Code of conduct? “Thou Shalt Not Rustle Glorious Leader’s Jimmies”?
Denise Dewald, MD9Reminds me of German universities and professional organizations during Nazism.
Major League Bitch (she/her/Sith)2"Officers! They're telling the unvarnished truth. ARREST THEM! The truth cannot be told here! This is an educational conference not a truth conference."
This Is Bad, Really Bad2LOL. Bcz they were actually in the real world. Not allowed! So glad we stopped supporting ADA a few years ago. Just give up soda and keep your money.
Sid Olufs2The history of the SA and Gestapo and SS in 1930s Germany is helpful, but that was then. This is what’s going on now, how it works in our time.
Members of the American Diabetes Association were forcibly removed from the annual meeting for distributing an editorial critical of Trumpian policy. 😳
Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦12And it seems it was the ADA that called the police in their own members, including the EiC of their flagship journal www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w... #ADA2026
Andrew Popp9As the parent of a diabetic child I certify this as insane.
Grant Buote 🇵🇸 🇺🇦2FASCISM 101 , it's called
nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social2Founders said to start over if tyranny \ non representative government for a reason!
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 🇺🇸28I 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
felinecannonball4The 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.
Pareto3Science censorship, meet Barbara Streisand. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
