Community Voices: On the Events of the American Diabetes Association 86th Scientific Sessions

The editorial and the seven opinion articles posted here were scheduled for publication on July 13, 2026, in the journal, Diabetes Care.

All articles were provided, in advance of the scheduled publication date, to the leadership of the American Diabetes Association (the publisher of Diabetes Care) with the offer to publish their response simultaneously along with the articles.

The ADA’s response was to refuse to publish these articles.

We are speaking out because it is unusual and unacceptable for a medical society to work at cross purposes with its members and its editors. The ADA has already tried to restrict editorial freedom once before related to our raising awareness of what is happening in Washington, DC, and, in particular, with the dismantling of the National Institutes of Health.

As described in the following pages, a wrong occurred in New Orleans that the ADA has not addressed. There remain open questions surrounding the events of June 5th. It is because we wish to heal and come together following this difficult situation that we believe it is important that these articles be read and these voices be heard.

We need an ADA that cares about the interests of people with diabetes and the members who support the mission.

The ADA has one goal, “to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.” We all need to focus on this goal.

We believe in editorial independence. Because we cannot publish these articles, as planned, in the pages of Diabetes Care, we are posting them here on a preprint server for our readership.