Police Remove ADA Members Distributing Editorial Critical of Trump Research Policies at New Orleans Meeting

Police removed five researchers, including the lead author of an editorial and a former ADA president, from the American Diabetes Association's annual meeting in New Orleans after they distributed copies of an editorial critical of Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. The editorial, published in the ADA's own journal *Diabetes Care* on April 29, detailed the negative effects of administration cuts on diabetes research and outcomes, according to coverage on Hacker News. Researchers were told they could no longer attend the scientific sessions, sparking widespread criticism on social media over the heavy-handed response to a peer-reviewed piece of scholarship, as reported by bsky.