Back from the dead, this thread!
The problem is, both sides are right, and both are wrong.
The Japanese are making whaling an industry. It's obvious. There is not a shred of science being done on that ship. One single whale would take days to scientifically examine properly, and they're doing it in about 2 hours from haul out??? I call BS there. There just isn't any kind of time to process the specimen adequately. One single
Tursiops truncatus (Bottlenose Dolphin) necropsy takes longer, and it's only 1/50th the size of a Minke.
As such:
The quality of science involved in the JARPN study is astonishingly poor. At the 2001 meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee, 32 scientists representing many different countries submitted a document expressing their belief that the Japanese program lacked scientific rigour and would not meet minimum standards of academic review that are widely in use in science world-wide (Clapham et al. 2002, 2003).
It angers me that the Japs are hiding behind science, while not actually
doing any real science.
But, as I said before the Sea Sheppards are complete idiots, to the degree of functional retardation. There are correct ways to document and catch these guys, without risking lives. I have said all along, this show will end with deaths.