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The conference invited Jay Bhattacharya (the NIH director), who I guarantee was not going to give a technical speech, since beyond an 30-year-old, never-professionally-used generic medical degree, he knows approximately dick about diabetes or anything relevant. These guys were handing out copies of an article outside that room. He didn't show and sent a substitute, who was surely going to sing the same song.

By letting NIH political operatives in, the ADA made the conference itself a political event.

> The article linked doesn't even say what exactly they were protesting (beyond a rather vague "attacks on scientific research" which could mean a lot of things).

It does mean a lot of things, and the Trump administration is doing roughly all of them. Sorry about your lack of basic knowledge of current events.