Prof. Dr. Péter Hack, ELTE head of department professor and Dr. Bence Ákos Gát, a researcher at the National Public Service University, also commented on the worrying experiment that unfolded in connection with Balázs Orbán's doctoral dissertation.
Dr. spoke. Bence Ákos Gát, a researcher at the National University of Public Service, who participated in the preliminary workshop discussion of Balázs Orbán's doctoral dissertation, where the author presented the thesis. (The workshop debate corresponds to a kind of "pre-defense".) "After reading Balázs Orbán's dissertation and taking part in the preliminary workshop debate, I can say that the candidate answered all questions with scientific accuracy," writes the researcher on his X-page .
Balázs Orbán is an exemplary PhD candidate.
"His work is of outstanding quality, with an innovative analytical framework and interesting conclusions."
he adds.
"If such shameful discrimination had befallen those with left-wing views, it would have become an international scandal."
- noted Bence Ákos Gát post
In the case, Prof. Dr. Péter Hack, head of department at ELTE, also spoke as a guest of the Ultrahang YouTube channel.
The politician's doctorate was first attacked by 444 and Gábor Polyák, head of the ELTE department, on an openly political basis, then András Rácz, the left-liberal press's favorite Russia expert, also came on the scene, who finally came to the conclusion that Balázs Orbán wrote his own doctorate.
Péter Hack stated that these attacks do not only affect Balázs Orbán, but also ELTE. Even by persons who have nothing to do with the institution. The head of the department also referred to it, for example
Gábor Polyák has only been an employee of the university for three years,
otherwise, his personal experience is that ELTE is a welcoming environment for people with very different political views and different mentalities. Minister Tibor Navracsics and political analyst Gábor Török teach at the university, but there are also "extremely left-wing teachers who also participate in the development of opposition programs". He emphasized
he also considers everything that is happening around Balázs Orbán's doctoral dissertation to be problematic, because this was previously the communist practice.
"The communists also wanted to take over power in science, they prevented universities from awarding scientific degrees." The professor recalled that until the regime change, those who did not agree with the communist system could not obtain an academic degree.
Those who are acting now want to restore the same"
said the head of the department.
After all this, he asked those who rejected Balázs Orbán's work in the doctoral council, whether they would consider it good if it worked the other way around. If the ministers were to reject applications for university professors because the scientists applying for the position do not agree with the government.
Balázs Orbán was not alone - the ELTE scandal became international
He stated that he had not heard of anyone being "mowed down" on political grounds in recent years. But he knows of specific persons who have a left-wing bias, the accreditation committee did not support them for some reason, "yet the right-wing minister presented him to the right-wing president of the republic, and the person was appointed".
Hack described the course of the doctoral training in detail, responded to the accusations related to the thesis booklet, emphasizing that nothing can be inferred from the metadata, but he also touched on the following:
while István Kukorelli, supervisor of Balázs Orbán, collaborated on twenty-five protected theses, and András Rácz, who teaches at Corvinus, on only one, and not alone.
You can watch the full conversation below:
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