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  • petersuberpetersuber
    Jun 9, 2026, 5:59 PM

    Update. Here's the side of the controversy. It was just following the law requiring nonprofit orgs to be nonpartisan.
    diabetes.org/newsroom/press-re

    PS: A few points in reply:
    * Then why did the ADA flagship journal publish the pro-science, Trump-critical editorial in the first place? Is the ADA now saying that was a mistake? Will it try to retract that editorial?
    * The members distributing copies of the editorial were not acting for the association. Or if that was not clear, what if they'd made clear (as the authors of the editorial made clear) that they were only speaking for themselves, not for the ADA?
    * Could the ADA preserve its nonpartisanship by disavowing the peaceful leafleteers? Did it think federal law required it to call the police to remove them from the building?
    * Would the ADA have called the police on peaceful pro-Trump or pro-Battacharya leafleteers?
    * Would it have called the police on attendees who sat quietly in their seats wearing "We stand with science" buttons?

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  • Danny Revingdannyreving@mastodon.social
    Jun 9, 2026, 1:42 PM

    @petersuber the US is becoming a third world country also in medicine and for the next couple of years many medical institutions including CDC and FDA are not trustworthy and must be ignored. Let’s hope common sense and science returns after the Orange Moron has gone for good.

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  • Mela EckenfelsMela@zusammenkunft.net
    Jun 9, 2026, 6:06 PM

    @petersuber wtf. If a medical and scientific organisation can't be on the side of medicine or science, why even bother? They just should dissolve the org. Or rename it to "Bhattacharya buttkissing society. There will be canapes".

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  • Feistyfeisty_lemming@zeroes.ca
    Jun 9, 2026, 7:20 PM

    @Mela Exactly. If they allow themselves to be subverted this way, then their purpose is transformed from a focus on science and research to a focus on whatever Dear Leader and his minions say they must focus on. They might think they will just carry on as usual, but they’re wrong. @petersuber

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  • Maikemaikek@fedifreu.de
    Jun 9, 2026, 6:37 PM

    @petersuber Again. They call it nonpartisan, but indeed it is highly partisan if you're not going to comment on political decisions and development in your field. And calling the police is just the cherry on the cake. I hope they get what they deserve, people revoking their membership ... but I am afraid ADA has the keys to a lot of coffers 😕.
    #ADA

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