捕鯨サークル御用学者達の科学的低レベルさ
投稿者： r13812 投稿日時： 2009/09/17 08:53 投稿番号： [59270 / 63339]
まずは2002年5月20日付ニューヨークタイムズ紙上での
[21 individual scientists]による日本政府への公開質問状
「AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN」
から事が始まる。
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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.
[21 individual scientists]による日本政府への公開質問状
「AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN」
から事が始まる。
↓
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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