Five prominent scientists were removed from the American Diabetes Association's annual meeting in New Orleans. Their offense was distributing copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration's attacks on scientific research.
The editorial, published in Diabetes Care, was co-authored by Steven Kahn, the journal's editor-in-chief. Kahn, along with former ADA president Desmond Schatz and three other scientists, handed out reprints outside a room where NIH director Jay Bhattacharya was scheduled to speak.
The scientists were forcibly removed from the conference center, had their lanyards taken, and were barred from attending the rest of the meeting. One of the ousted scientists, Aaron Kelly, condemned the incident as an example of censorship.
