A Fight at the American Diabetes Association (ADA)

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 and sponsors the very research it seeks to continue.  It has historically pushed drugs over lifestyle, dispensing with any data that suggests that their policy statements are erroneous, which typically they are.  They invented prediabetes and are responsible for pushing normal sugars so low as to cause potential harm.  And if doctors question their views or provide contrary data--of which there is an ample quantity--they seek to suppress it.  So where is the medical censorship, and do we really care about a small scuffle between leaders of an organization that needs a real revolution to make it relevant to care."The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism."  -William Osler, MDwww.returntohealing.com