You can’t science here! This is a science conference!

Man, I hope those who ousted them suffer serious blowback via the Streisand Effect.

Headline buried the lede:

Police escort Dr. Steven Kahn out of a medical conference in New Orleans for handling out copies of an editorial critical of the Trump administration

Fuck me. And people wonder why I have headaches all the time.

Five leading scientists were ousted from the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans on Friday. Their crime: handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care on April 29, sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on scientific research.

The ADA confirmed to MedPage Today that five registered scientists had been removed from the meeting, claiming the scientists had violated the organization’s code of conduct for conferences. “These attendees were escorted out by our onsite event security because they demonstrated behavior not consistent with this code of conduct,” the ADA media team said in a statement. “They were respectfully given the opportunity to cease this behavior and chose not to which is why they were escorted out.”

“All attendees will conduct themselves in a professional and respectful manner, free from any form of discrimination, harassment, or intimidation,” the code of conduct states. “Inappropriate conduct, including but not limited to harassment; threatening or unwelcome physical or verbal actions; or disorderly or disruptive conduct such as protesting, will not be tolerated.”

Sounds like they are interpreting the rules in an unnatural way and saying that handing out articles is "protesting" simply because they are political. Are the event organizers "obeying in advance"? That is difficult to believe, since it is not a huge event.

As it sounds like these people continued to hand out the articles after being asked to stop, I suspect it is more likely that the organizers are simply MAGA, and we know that MAGA will do anything and break any rules themselves to silence dissent.

If they all started cancelling their ADA memberships, the association would immediately back down.

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“All attendees will conduct themselves in a professional and respectful manner, free from any form of discrimination, harassment, or intimidation,”

I guess Trump adminstration did not get this memo

Shouldn't all the diabetic MAGAs be seeing a Christian chiropractor and knocking back ivermectin for that there dyubeetuz? Science is communism!!1!11!!1

Some questioned how handing out reprints of an editorial published in the ADA’s own journal, at the ADA’s own annual conference, could be construed as a violation of that code. The scientists were not disruptive or disorderly in their conduct, based on the videos posted by MedPage Today, although the fact that they were handing out reprints just before an NIH representative was scheduled to speak might be construed as a form of protest. But it could just as easily be argued that such actions fall under valid scientific dissemination and discussion, the conference’s stated objective.

This doesn't make the ADA look good. I don't know enough about them to understand their reasoning though.

Here's the article they were distributing:

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

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I hope when trump is gone these leaders who have cowered down to him are ejected... In to space.

Wow the headline completely misses the point. They weren't ejected for distributing a journal. They were ejected for criticizing the pedo prez.

It's amazing how fascism spreads into all facets of society.

Pissing off Elsevier and being political? They must be tenured.

Ejected for “disruptive conduct” - Perhaps disruption is the only ethical action. It baffles me how doctors can support this preposterous MAHA agenda. Aren’t they supposed to do no harm?

The editorial they were handing out, published in the ADA's own journal: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-Dismantle

IIRC there's a not insignificant number of researchers who upload their own stuff on places like SciHub, which could literally get them sued if it gets traced to them because they don't have rights to their own damn science that they themselves did. Anyone closer to the science publication scene can verify or debunk this?