A former colleague of Luciana Bode and a member of the commission at the University of Babes Bolyai, which confirmed the doctoral thesis of the Minister of the Interior with honors, Radu Karp retired from CNATDCU, where he was a member of the commission for political science, security studies. , military sciences, intelligence and public order.

The decision came after his colleagues in the Council of the Political Science Faculty of the University of Bucharest asked him to leave his post at CNATDCU.

“I was asked to resign from the CNADTCU commission because of the Bode situation. I’ve been saying for a long time that I want to resign, but not for this reason, because I’m fast asleep after this Bode thing. Yes, I am very sorry that I have to pay more attention to some quotes and notice them, put them in the report, but I sleep peacefully knowing that I have fulfilled my duties that I had. I am very sorry, but it is not a big fault. And all members of the commission are sleeping peacefully, because we did what we had to (…)

Others cannot sleep peacefully. (…) the responsibility for the awarding of this title belongs to Ms. Andronescu who signed this title, the commission from the CNATDCU ministry that recommended, the commission that had all the elements at its disposal, that is the responsibility, UBB does not award titles, it only recommends,” Radu Karp told HotNews.ro.

Karp wanted to clarify that the main reason he is resigning is that “there will be a lot of pressure on the CNATDCU and he does not want to be ‘interpreted in any way'”. I do not want to create comments and discussions about the fact that there will be an attempt to stop the action in the CNADTCU commission (…)

My departure from CNATDCU is because the institution is not working well, there is no legal framework to protect us as members, and in the face of what is to come or in the face of new allegations, we have no defense,” Karp stressed. .

In addition, the professor explains that the committee members did not have a “similarity report” at their disposal.

“We didn’t have a handbook for writing articles because it didn’t exist in a way that the committee couldn’t check all the bibliographic references or reference how to cite because there wasn’t a standard that was available. The only thing that was available was the statement of the academic supervisor, who clearly said that the percentage was lower than the percentage accepted at Babes Boyai University, which is below 30%,” the professor explained.

Radu Karp is one of the university professors who praised Lucian Bode’s thesis, writes edupedu.ro.

university prof. Dr. Radu Carp is the Director of the Department of Public Policy, International Relations and Security Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest, member of the Board of Directors of TVR, proposed by PNL.

Babesh-Bolyai Ethics Commission: “The thesis is deeply wrong”

The Ethics Commission of Babes-Bolyai University analyzed the doctoral thesis of Interior Minister Lucian Bode and concluded that “the vast majority of suspicions of plagiarism are confirmed” and “the revealed ethical violations are important enough to conclude that the thesis is deeply flawed.”

The ethics committee asks Bode to make corrections to the thesis and to withdraw the book published on the basis of the thesis. It also reports to the CNATDCU/National Research Ethics Board “for additional steps as required by law.”

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“The UBB Ethics Commission adopted on 01.09.2023 Decision No. 1 of 2023 as a result of an independent report after receiving new information regarding suspected plagiarism in the doctoral dissertation of Mr. Lucian Bode. The conclusion of the analysis is that suspicions of plagiarism are mostly confirmed. In the absence of a legal possibility to apply disciplinary action against a person who is not a member of the scientific community, the Commission requests corrections to the thesis and the withdrawal of the book published on the basis of the thesis, and the national boards (CNATDCU/National Research Ethics Board) will be notified of further steps in accordance with the law,” says the message of the UBB Ethics Commission.

The Commission reported on itself after PressOne, under the signature of journalist Emilia Sherkan, published an analysis according to which the doctoral dissertation of Interior Minister Lucian Bode contains at least 18.5% plagiarized text, as well as 6 completely plagiarized illustrations and another 30 incorrectly cited. . Initially, the Ethics Commission did not examine the entire doctoral thesis of the Minister of the Interior, Lucian Bode, but only the fragments that were found to be plagiarized, finding that the fragments identified as containing a problem of plagiarism represented approximately 1,923 words out of 65,000 words. theses (2.95%).

On January 5, the Minister of the Interior, Lucian Bode, sued the Commission on Ethics of the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (UBB).

READ HERE THE FULL DECISION OF THE ETHICS COMMISSION OF BABESH BOLYAI UNIVERSITY

• READ THE CARP COUNCIL’S RIGHT OF REPLY HERE