One might assume a diabetes conference's peak drama would be a row over insulin pump calibration.
Instead, security in New Orleans tackled pediatric obesity experts and snatched papers from journal editors. Their crime? Distributing an editorial critiquing NIH budget cuts.
The American Diabetes Association claimed this kept the meeting "safe"—spectacular corporate newspeak for tossing your own keynote speakers into the street.
The full, unhinged report:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/121619
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