[15] She accused the EU of trying to turn Finland into a state, which she described as a threat to Finnish interest, sovereignty and democracy.

She also suggested that Finland withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty and Paris Agreement, and ban Islam from the country.

[23] Huhtasaari has also said that "feminists today loath Jewish-Christian culture and they hate white Christian men".

[29][30] Huhtasaari responded by claiming to have written the dissertation in good faith, relying on any shortcomings being detected during the review process.

[31] She also claimed to have followed the university's own guidance regarding citing of earlier theses, namely that such citations were (allegedly) advised against, as dissertations could not be guaranteed to be of sufficiently high academic standards.

[32] To defend her integrity, Huhtasaari published a positive employment certificate for her 1-year-tenure as a second-grade teacher at an elementary school in the Marshall Islands from April 2000.

[33] The University of Jyväskylä released its detailed report in August 2018, finding serious plagiarism and disregard for the scientific method throughout Huhtasaari's thesis.