だまされないために（流れおさらい）（１）
投稿者： r13812 投稿日時： 2010/06/02 00:31 投稿番号： [44477 / 62227]
まず2002年5月20日付のニューヨークタイムズ西部版に全面広告として
３人のノーベル賞受賞者を含む世界の著名な21人の科学者たち（非IWC科学委員会委員）が
（その中には「利己的な遺伝子」で有名なドーキンス博士もいらっしゃいます）
「調査捕鯨は信頼するに足る科学として最低限の基準を満たしていない」と批判した
公開質問状を掲載したことから事が始まります。
○日本は調査結果を外部の専門家が評価することを受け入れていない。
○科学的な調査として行われているにもかかわらず「信頼するに足る科学として最低限の基準」を満たしていない。
○日本の捕鯨計画が持つ商業的な性質は科学的独立性と相容れない。
○調査捕鯨のデータのほとんどは非致死調査で得る事ができる。
○切羽詰った科学的必要性が無いにも関わらず毎年何百頭ものクジラを殺す。
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN
May 20, 2002
Despite its obligation to comply with a global moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan has killed thousands
of whales over the past decade, claiming an exemption for “scientific whaling” under international law. We, the
undersigned scientists, believe Japan’s whale research program fails to meet minimum standards for credible
science. In particular:
We are concerned that Japan’s whaling program is not designed to answer scientific questions relevant to the
management of whales; that Japan has refused to make the information it collects available for independent
review; and that its research program lacks a testable hypothesis or other performance indicators consistent with
accepted scientific standards.
Most of the data being gathered by Japan’s “scientific whaling” are obtainable by non-lethal means; it is
possible, for example, to determine species, gender, population size, migration patterns, stock fidelity, and other
key biological information without harming whales. Yet Japan’s whale research program kills hundreds of whales
each year in the absence of a compelling scientific need.
The commercial nature of Japan’s whaling program conflicts with its scientific independence. Japan sells meat
from the whales it kills on commercial markets and assigns “scientific whaling” quotas to individual whaling
villages. These commercial ties create a profit incentive to kill whales even when no scientific need exists, raising
troubling questions about the motives behind Japan's program.
Japan has announced it will soon begin killing sei whales, an internationally listed endangered species,
ostensibly to determine the whales’ diet. Yet Japan has already analyzed the stomach contents of nearly 20,000 sei
whales it killed during the past fifty years. There is no reasonable likelihood that killing additional sei whales now
will add to what is already known about their diet.
By continuing to fund and carry out this program, Japan opens itself to serious charges that it is using the
pretense of scientific research to evade its commitments to the world community. As scientists, we believe this
compromises objective decision-making and undermines public confidence in the role of science to guide policy.
Accordingly, we respectfully urge the Japanese government to suspend its “scientific whaling” program.
３人のノーベル賞受賞者を含む世界の著名な21人の科学者たち（非IWC科学委員会委員）が
（その中には「利己的な遺伝子」で有名なドーキンス博士もいらっしゃいます）
「調査捕鯨は信頼するに足る科学として最低限の基準を満たしていない」と批判した
公開質問状を掲載したことから事が始まります。
○日本は調査結果を外部の専門家が評価することを受け入れていない。
○科学的な調査として行われているにもかかわらず「信頼するに足る科学として最低限の基準」を満たしていない。
○日本の捕鯨計画が持つ商業的な性質は科学的独立性と相容れない。
○調査捕鯨のデータのほとんどは非致死調査で得る事ができる。
○切羽詰った科学的必要性が無いにも関わらず毎年何百頭ものクジラを殺す。
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN
May 20, 2002
Despite its obligation to comply with a global moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan has killed thousands
of whales over the past decade, claiming an exemption for “scientific whaling” under international law. We, the
undersigned scientists, believe Japan’s whale research program fails to meet minimum standards for credible
science. In particular:
We are concerned that Japan’s whaling program is not designed to answer scientific questions relevant to the
management of whales; that Japan has refused to make the information it collects available for independent
review; and that its research program lacks a testable hypothesis or other performance indicators consistent with
accepted scientific standards.
Most of the data being gathered by Japan’s “scientific whaling” are obtainable by non-lethal means; it is
possible, for example, to determine species, gender, population size, migration patterns, stock fidelity, and other
key biological information without harming whales. Yet Japan’s whale research program kills hundreds of whales
each year in the absence of a compelling scientific need.
The commercial nature of Japan’s whaling program conflicts with its scientific independence. Japan sells meat
from the whales it kills on commercial markets and assigns “scientific whaling” quotas to individual whaling
villages. These commercial ties create a profit incentive to kill whales even when no scientific need exists, raising
troubling questions about the motives behind Japan's program.
Japan has announced it will soon begin killing sei whales, an internationally listed endangered species,
ostensibly to determine the whales’ diet. Yet Japan has already analyzed the stomach contents of nearly 20,000 sei
whales it killed during the past fifty years. There is no reasonable likelihood that killing additional sei whales now
will add to what is already known about their diet.
By continuing to fund and carry out this program, Japan opens itself to serious charges that it is using the
pretense of scientific research to evade its commitments to the world community. As scientists, we believe this
compromises objective decision-making and undermines public confidence in the role of science to guide policy.
Accordingly, we respectfully urge the Japanese government to suspend its “scientific whaling” program.
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