petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org
I work for #OpenAccess to research. Formerly directed the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause. Also an emeritus professor of #philosophy and non-practicing #lawyer. Posting on open research, academic culture, US politics, democracy. Dad of daughters. For #OA news, also follow the Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp). I aim for comprehensive coverage there, not here.
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The flagship journal of the American Diabetes Association (#ADA) just published an editorial criticizing the #Trump admin for attempting to "Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States."
https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-Dismantle
At an ADA conference yesterday, some members tried to pass out copies of the editorial just before #NIH Director #JayBhattacharya was scheduled to speak. They were blocked by security and escorted out of the building by police. The ADA had called in the police. Bhattacharya cancelled his talk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/well/ada-conference-diabetes-trump.html
PS: What's going on at the ADA? The editorial had a disclaimer saying that it only represented the views of the authors, not the association. But the association had the courage to publish it. Then the association blocked its distribution, at its own conference, even calling in the police. Does it support free speech, even in support of science? Or not? And why can police stop peaceful scientists from handing out an editorial, even at an event sponsored by the group publishing the editorial?
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics