一位教授因批评特朗普政府而被逐出会议。他说他感到“震惊”。

Five members of the American Diabetes Association were removed from the organization’s annual conference on Friday by police for handing out copies of an op-ed criticizing the Trump administration outside the hall where Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, was scheduled to speak. The op-ed had been published in Diabetes Care, the association’s own flagship journal (though with a note distancing the association from the paper’s authors). It was the first session of the first day of the conference.

In the aftermath, two top officials have resigned from the ADA,MedPage Today reported.

The removed members say they’ve been censored. Prior to the resignations, the association had offered a few explanations. In a public statement, it said that, as a nonprofit, the ADA must maintain a “strictly nonpartisan environment at all organizational events.” In an email to members that The Chronicle obtained, association leaders said the researchers in question had been violating a policy that prohibits distributing unauthorized material. An email that The Seattle Times reported was sent to Steven Kahn, one of the removed members, by the ADA’s executive team, said: “For the safety of everyone, we must take all demonstrations seriously.” A spokesperson for the ADA didn’t immediately return a direct request from The Chronicle for comment.

Bhattacharya pulled out at the last minute because of a scheduling conflict, and another NIH official spoke instead, in support of the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda,STAT reported.

Francie Diep:Tell me what happened.

Aaron Kelly:The idea of having Jay Bhattacharya as the opening keynote was highly offensive to me and to many ADA members. He is directly complicit in the systematic dismantling of the biomedical research enterprise in this country.

Within 30 seconds of handing out my first paper, I had law enforcement surrounding me.They were very aggressive, very intimidating.