A Fight at the American Diabetes Association (ADA)
About this episode
The episode discusses a controversial incident at the ADA Research Convention involving censorship and funding cuts in diabetes research.
At the ADA Research Convention several members trying to pass out information were forced out after the police were called. They were ADA leaders who wrote an editorial blasting the current Presidential administration for cuts in research funding. Everyone agreed with their stance, just not their tactics. The press labels this as censorship. But is it? The ADA is primarily funded and controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, the very industry that funds an...
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