Scientists in Hungary protest govt takeover of research
Source: Associated Press
Pablo Gorondi, Associated Press
Updated 12:30 pm CST, Tuesday, February 12, 2019
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Scientists in Hungary on Tuesday protested government efforts to take control of their research funding, a move they say endangers academic freedom.
Several thousand people formed a human chain around the headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, urging the academy's leaders to fight the government plan and hold onto their independence.
Researchers at the protest handed a petition to academy president and renowned mathematician Laszlo Lovasz, asking him to support keeping their research institutes under the academy's management. The academy oversees some 5,000 researchers in a range of disciplines, from medicine and economics to computer science and astronomy.
Populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the government's aim is to improve innovation in scientific research and to have publicly funded research projects create "a direct economic profit."
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/science/article/Hungary-Scientists-protest-govt-proposal-on-13609977.php
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It's a bad sign when their best people look for employment outside their country. Which is often the case with extreme right wing governments. Hungary's economy is not producing the outcomes Orban has promised. Blaming immigrants and minorities doesn't sound as convincing when they don't have many immigrants or minorities left.
Dude's cabinet has twice as many men named Laszlo as they have women.
Good job making Hungary great again 
