Whaling as Science
- Clapham, Phillip J.
- Berggren, Per
- Childerhouse, Simon
- Friday, Nancy A.
- Kasuya, Toshio
- Kell, Laurence
- Kock, Karl-Hermann
- Manzanilla-Naim, Silvia
- Notabartolo Di Sciara, Giuseppe
- Perrin, William F.
- Read, Andrew J.
- Reeves, Randall R.
- Rogan, Emer
- Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo
- Smith, Tim D.
- Stachowitsch, Michael
- Taylor, Barbara L.
- Thiele, Deborah
- Wade, Paul R.
- Brownell, Robert L., Jr.
Publication date
March 2003
DOI Publisher
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln ISSN
0006-3568 Language
EnglishAbstract
In an open letter published last year in the New York Times, 21 distinguished scientists (including three Nobel laureates) criticized Japan\u27s program of scientific research whaling, noting its poor design and unjustified reliance upon lethal sampling. In a recent Forum article in BioScience, Aron, Burke, and Freeman (2002) castigate the letter\u27s signers and accuse them of meddling in political issues without sufficient knowledge of the science involved in those issues
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