Diabetes association turmoil roils journal as group tries to thwart boycott
The American Diabetes Association is facing an internal boycott from the editorial leadership of its flagship journal, Diabetes Care. The dispute stems from the association's handling of a protest at its June conference, which led to the ejection of several prominent researchers.
Why it matters
This conflict threatens the operational integrity of a major medical journal and highlights growing tensions between academic researchers and professional medical organizations.
Tensions between the American Diabetes Association and several editors of its flagship journal — who have boycotted the group over its handling of a protest at the association’s June conference — have again boiled over, this time on the website of the journal.
Steven Kahn , editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care and professor of medicine at the University of Washington, was one of five researchers ejected from the association’s June meeting in New Orleans for distributing copies of a Diabetes Care editorial on funding cuts outside the hall where National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya was scheduled to speak.
On Sept. 1, ADA announced the results of an independent review, which concluded the five attendees were removed because their actions violated the conference’s code of conduct, not because of the nature of the material they were distributing.
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