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
It’s also worth noting that they were escorted out of the American Diabetes Association conference for distributing an editorial published in the ADA’s own Journal.
“Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on scientific research” is the rest of the quote ur missing here that I feel adds context. I feel like it’s fair to call out Trump for attacking the scientific community at a scientific conference, which his goons then gave him the boot for being critical of the regime. What times we live in…
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.
Gutenberg’s Revolution continues
Fuck me. And people wonder why I have headaches all the time.
Maybe you should stop inviting people to do the nasty to you?
