[JumpCrisscross]

> They were not handing an Article, they were handing an opinion piece

They were handing out an editorial published in the flagship journal of the ADA. This is incredibly normal. It's increasingly abundantly clear that the conference organisers broke their own code of conduct and then later sent CYA e-mails.

[MemoryHoleHQ]

I've been going to scientific conferences about more than 20 years now. I never, ever, saw anyone distributing scientific articles unrequested (most authors will gladly provide them on request, but surely not hand them out unrequested), much less anyone carrying around copies of opinion pieces to distribute unrequested.

Never. And that's the norm in a scientific conference.