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If they were distributing fliers, sure. They weren’t. They were distributing an article published in the conference organizer’s own journal. That’s what academics do at conferences!
> risk losing all funding
They’ve already lost the funding. That’s what is being pointed out. OMB is using accounting shenanigans to circumvent the will of the Congress to cut funding to diabetes research, including, based on the article, some pretty serious and nonpartisan stuff.
They weren’t distributing a scientific article.
Link: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Mi...
Astronomical journals frequently have articles going through the economics of various telescope proposals. The analogy would be someone in management at one of those conferences with an economic stake in one of the telescopes forbidding that team from distributing its work while others continue to do so.
It’s obviously a breach of any reasonable code of conduct. It’s obviously a departure from precedent. And it would make anyone outside that conference really curious about the specific allegations raised in the quashed paper.
The only people who use this phrasing are pro-Trump propagandists. It's an attempt to make criticism sound superficial rather than a reasonable objection to actions. Don't be fooled.