ADA Expels Five Diabetes Experts, Then Apologizes
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- ADA expelled five diabetes experts from its annual meeting in New Orleans and threatened them with arrest for distributing paper copies of an editorial.
- Members of the diabetes research community expressed shock and disbelief that their colleagues were treated this way.
- ADA initially doubled down on the expulsions in the face of significant backlash before issuing a formal apology on Wednesday.
- The incident is discussed in the segment in the context of the broader climate of biomedical research in the second Trump administration.
- STAT cardiovascular disease reporter Elizabeth Cooney was on the ground in New Orleans and discussed the incident and its fallout in the STATus Report.
Why it matters: A major medical society threatened five of its own researchers with arrest for distributing an editorial at its annual meeting, and the society reversed course only after days of public backlash — an unusual escalation that the segment explicitly ties to the climate of biomedical research in the second Trump administration.
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