Crap. Scotts mad

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Everybody is at the ADA conference in New Orleans. Not me. I was just curious what happened, so I wrote to one of our 'betics this morning…

" Late, late last night (I think I was asleep), I think the BBC broadcast a blurb that two of you got in some trouble in New Orleans. It wasn’t anything serious, but I smiled because some diabetics somewhere started so much trouble that they made international news.

It was doctors! Doctors started trouble. Those crazy cats! It was over research funding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbBDrceCy8

:joy: :joy: If anybody gets the title of that paper they were pushing, I’ll read it because the police confiscated it and that’s hilarious. Behave yourselves today, diabetes criminals."

**Then I had a busy day. I come back in the eavening. **
Scott had written this,

"So the ADA may have thought that what Yale University historian Tim Snyder has called “obeying in advance,” was good for the ADA, but it makes the org look cowardly, craven and collaborationist.

This is unlikely to be viewed positively within the scientific community."

Fred Ledley had written,

"…diabetes researchers, including the editor of a leading journal, were removed from the field’s premier conference in New Orleans on Friday morning, after handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s “dismantling” of the biomedical research enterprise.”

“the incident occurred outside a conference hall where a keynote address had originally been scheduled to be given by Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, at a gathering organized by the American Diabetes Association. A group of about 10 researchers, including some of the field’s leaders, were quietly handing out printouts of an editorial published in Diabetes Care, a journal the association publishes, according to three of the participants. Security and police told them to leave at the direction of event organizers…” by Carolyn Johnson at the The Washington Post"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/06/05/diabetes-researchers-ousted-conference-after-criticizing-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzgwNjMyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgyMDE0Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODA2MzIwMDAsImp0aSI6ImEyZmMwMGIwLTI0YTQtNDU5ZS05NzgzLWM0ZjZmODVhYjhjYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyNi8wNi8wNS9kaWFiZXRlcy1yZXNlYXJjaGVycy1vdXN0ZWQtY29uZmVyZW5jZS1hZnRlci1jcml0aWNpemluZy10cnVtcC8ifQ.aIc_fnWWf0Xd7x5WmnWCGFvkO7cD8oxNtcfA1xCQOAY

What does all this mean, Spies? I don’t understand.

This research stuff has gotten super political, but putting that aside, I think one of these docs was from the University of Minnesota. What was his name? That’s my hood. I need that name. But I can’t access the articles a 2nd time w/o paying. Stupid paywall!

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Here it is…

" A video taken by MedPage Today shows Kelly, a pediatric obesity expert from Minnesota, being shoved by an officer wearing a badge of a local Constable’s office, with Louisiana State Police following close behind. A plainclothes security agent rips the editorials from Kahn’s hands."

Crap.

Crap.
This is bad for business somehow.
This morning the original video was unadulterated. The Minnesotan yells, “I’m being censored,” which was funny. But the new orleans music they overlayed on it is also funny.

I don’t really understand what all this is about, but whatever it is, it’s unhelpful somehow. I feel glad that it’s a doctor and not a diabetic. Crap. What are my guys up to? Maybe I should stop egging on the doctors. Minnesota is already worked up about the feds. Minnesotans have a bunch of pent up energy all the time from being snowed in for so many months. I need to be more sensitive torwards my community and maybe take a break from pouring gas on the fire. It’s cultural - we are calm & polite & self deprecating, and we just rage out. We call it, “Going all Viking Berserker.”

“Viking Berserker” is slang for a mental health condition that is common to the Finnish. It’s actually called Explosive Rage Syndrome…maybe. I don’t know what I’m talking about. I’m worried my state is going to explode during the elections. But I don’t have any idea how to prevent it.

I’ve been trying. I think I’ve had some success. But there have also been some real failures to talk people down.

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These are my questions:

QUESTION 1.) I feel like the feds cut research money across the board. I think they cut everyone. I think they were looking for places where money was potentially draining out of the system into neferious rat holes of nothingness. I feel ike they found a couple of those places, but it was probably WAY more hassle than it was worth. Despite that, if you sent a professional lobbyists down to their offices and asked them to give the money back a couple of times, they did.

TRUE/FALSE

I have follow up questions. Like, did childhood cancer keep all their funding? Did research for illnesses without professional lobbyists lose funding? This guy was a childhood obesity pediatrician/researcher. Is that why he lost funding? No professional lobbyists? Maybe he didn’t fly to DC and ask for the money back? would that have worked? I feel like when the money dried up, the feds wanted to see a guy physically show up and say, “Please gimmie my money back,” so they knew it wasn’t draining into some rat hole somewhere. Is that summary valid?

QUESTION #2.) What does he mean by, “Researchers & phsycians rise up!”

The Tik Tok was the best, but I can’t find it.

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Here’s the paper: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-Dismantle