Trump: Diabetes doctors ejected from conference for handing out paper criticising US administration

Police in New Orleans forcibly removed1 five diabetes experts from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) annual conference for distributing an editorial2 published in the association's journal. The paper criticised US President Donald Trump for dismantling and destroying biomedical research in the country.Louisiana State Police confiscated the doctors' conference identification and forbid them from returning to the meeting. They escorted the protesters from the event peacefully. No one was arrested.“They physically grabbed us, forced us out of the conference centre, and now are telling us we can no longer attend this meeting,” said Aaron Kelly, co-director of the Centre for Paediatric Obesity Medicine and professor of paediatrics at the University of Minnesota, who was one of those ejected.“It really has come to this in America. Censorship is real,” he told the Washington Post, adding that his comments did not represent the views of his institution.3The ADA said in a statement to...