“The ADA is no longer what we’d call a profile in courage,” write Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch.
Nine years ago in these pages, we — columnists for STAT at the time — praised the American Diabetes Association for standing up to a researcher in Brazil who had sued the group in U.S. federal court for issuing expressions of concern on four of his published articles. We even named the ADA the inaugural winner of our Doing the Right Thing award.
Times certainly have changed, and the ADA is no longer what we’d call a profile in courage. The nation’s leading diabetes group now finds itself mired in a self-made mess involving its decision to oust a group of physicians from its annual meeting earlier this year.