The American Diabetes Association has responded to the little incident at a recent meeting, and issued a formal statement.
As many of you are now aware, an incident took place at the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Scientific Sessions.
As a 501(c)(3) organization, the ADA has safeguards in place to ensure that it complies with all IRS regulations. This includes maintaining a strictly nonpartisan environment at all organizational events and functions while engaging across party affiliations to advance our mission. We have always, and will continue to welcome scientific inquiry, respectful dialogue, and diverse perspectives in the pursuit of better outcomes for people living with diabetes and obesity.
Oh. They were being nonpartisan
. That claim doesn’t hold up.
When the opposition is ignorant, advancing unscientific ideas, and is using them to consciously dismantle the apparatus of science to silence disagreement, you can’t silence yourself to prevent conflict. They have a political agenda and are distorting and destroying science to achieve it, and conceding the argument in advance with silence is political, too — and it’s favoring their position.
I’m not at all impressed with the cowardly, conservative leadership of the ADA.
I’m not a lawyer, but all 501(c)(3) prohibits an organization from campaigning for and/or endorsing specific candidates and from lobbying. It says nothing about letting attendees at one of your conferences pass out an article critical of the current administration, an article that, I might add, is prefaced with a disclaimer stating that it does not represent the opinion or official position of the ADA. Sadly, the ADA has shown itself all too eager to obey in advance.
“To learn more about how we are advocating for everyone affected by diabetes, visit us on X”
Meet them on X, because Musk’s incel, misogynist, pro-Nazi racist social media website is where all scientists and medical researchers should want to go. Is Diabetes going to be caused more by Tylenol or miasma? /S
Unsurprisingly, their CEO does not even have a medical background, but he has spent “24-plus years in for-profit sectors”. His background is in Economics: B.A.Sc Ag Economics. So now he can add Reich Wing politics to his “accomplishments”.
So when someone makes a speech etc praising Trump’s support for Robert Kennedy’s position that would be condemned too?
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”