Five diabetes experts expelled from a conference?

The expulsion of five diabetes experts from the American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans earlier this week caused quite a stir. Many in the diabetes research community expressed shock and disbelief that their colleagues were threatened with arrest for passing out paper copies of an editorial. After a few days of doubling down in the face of significant backlash, the ADA did formally apologize on Wednesday. But is their mea culpa too little, too late? In this week’s STATus Report, I chat with STAT cardiovascular disease reporter Elizabeth Cooney. She was in New Orleans for the diabetes meeting, and we discussed what exactly happened, what the reaction was like on the ground, what it says about the climate of biomedical research in the second Trump administration, and more. 0:00 — Intro: Experts escorted out of ADA meeting 0:41 — The Streisand Effect Explained 1:26 — STAT's Elizabeth Cooney on the ground in New Orleans 1:41 — What the editorial was about 2:26 — ADA's shifting justifications 3:34 — Inside the Conference: Bhattacharya's no-show 4:34 — Reaction from the scientific community 5:00 — Two resignations and the fallout 5:51 — Why did ADA do this? 7:34 — A mea culpa 8:27 — "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up" 8:59 — Outro More from STAT: Become a subscriber: https://www.statnews.com/stat-plus/ Watch Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Statnews Newsletters: https://www.statnews.com/signup/ STAT events: https://www.statnews.com/stat-events/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/statnews Twitter: https://twitter.com/statnews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/status_report_ig/ Flipboard: rb.gy/3xnsxr STAT Reports: https://rb.gy/rexfwj STAT eBooks: https://rb.gy/eme3h5 ABOUT STAT: Founded in 2015, STAT is a global digital media brand that focuses on delivering fast, deep, and tough-minded journalism about the life sciences industries to over six million monthly site visitors and an additional 20 million readers on the Apple News app. STAT takes you inside academic labs, biotech boardrooms, and political backrooms, casting a critical eye on scientific discoveries, scrutinizing corporate strategies, and chronicling the roiling battles for talent, money, and market share. With an award-winning newsroom, STAT provides indispensable insights and exclusive stories on the technologies, personalities, power brokers, and political forces driving massive changes in the life sciences industry — and a revolution in human health.