Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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Top leaders at the American Diabetes Association have resigned in wake of the huge outpouring of support for the 5 scientists — incl an ADA flagship journal editor — that the ADA forcibly removed from the annual meeting for disturbing an editorial from the ADA’s own flagship journal.
Another handful of sand in the gears:
Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient.
This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
Resignations included the organization's president-elect and scientific sessions chair
Why do you care? Why not just block them?
Because these people are ruining one of the greatest things about the internet: the hobbyist communities and the wonderful niche knowledge they shared and made available to the world.
They're all getting drowned out by AI bullshit to make a quick buck.