Police Remove Researchers from Diabetes Conference Over Editorial Distribution
At the annual American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans, five researchers were removed by police for distributing an editorial critical of the Trump administration's impact on biomedical research. The editorial, co-authored by Steve Kahn, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, was published in Diabetes Care. The researchers aimed to distribute 1,000 copies to raise awareness among peers about perceived threats to their livelihoods due to actions by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Video footage shows police confronting the researchers, attempting to seize the editorials, and physically removing them from the venue. Aaron Kelly, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, expressed concerns about censorship, stating that they were banned from re-entering the conference under threat of arrest. The ADA justified the removal by citing violations of the conference's code of conduct, which mandates professional and respectful behavior. 
