Официальный научный обзор безумных экспериментов Японии с пробиркой
мальков малых полосатиков и попытки скрещивания коров с китами взорвался обвинениями в убийстве китов под видом "исследований".
Ученые проанализировали 43 научных работ производится в Японии после 18 лет убийство китов и пришли к выводу , что они бесполезны, странны и эзотеричны.
Некоторые из экспериментов включали инъекцию мертвых сперматозоидов малых полосатиков в яйцеклетки коровы , другие пытаются производить "детей "
кита из пробирки и оттаивания замороженной спермы кашалота, чтобы увидеть, осталась ли она плодородной.
Институт Японии китообразных Исследования также пытались оплодотворить
яйцеклетки коровы и свиньи с пермой малых полосатиков - как часть программы китобойного промысла.
Австралийские делегаты на встрече в эти выходные на Международной китобойной комиссии (МКК) в Лондоне будут обсуждать "научные исследования" как "лазейку в мировом запрете" на коммерческий китобойный промысел, которая позволяет Японии продолжать охоту на морских гигантов и которая должна быть закрыта.
The head of Australia's scientific delegation to the IWC, Dr Nick Gales, said the research not only lacked credibility - it was downright strange.
"(The research involves) really bizarre and very strange experiments with sheep and pigs and eggs. It's totally esoteric, very strange research," he said from London.
Dr Gales also said the number of papers the lethal "research" produced - a mere 43 over 18 years - was incredibly small for a government-funded organisation.
"It was an incredibly low publication rate," he said.
More than half of the papers were dedicated to establishing whale mortality rates, but failed to do so.
"The amount of variability on these estimates means that the mortality rate remains unknown," Dr Gales said.
The findings of Australia's review show research objectives for the second phase of Japan's scientific whaling program, known as JARPA II, were unachievable, he said.
"They haven't changed any of the methodologies, Dr Gales said.
Environment Minister Peter Garrett said the scrutiny of Japan's research proved its whale hunt was about money.
"I challenge anyone to look at this sort of research and say it's necessary, to say it requires killing over 7000 whales," he said.
"This is why we say what is happening is not science, it's not necessary - it's commercial whaling."
Scientists originally analysed the first stage of Japan's whaling research in 2005 and published their findings in the renowned science journal Nature.
The scientists have updated this in the past two years since Japan released more papers on the subject.
This will be part of Australia's argument at this year's main IWC meeting in Chile, that killing whales is not generating any useful science. Japan has slaughtered more than 7000 whales during its 18-year "research" program.
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