Abstract
In an open letter published last year in the New York Times, 21 distinguished scientists (including three Nobel laureates) criticized Japan’s 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’s signers and accuse them of meddling in political issues without sufficient knowledge of the science involved in those issues. As members of the Scientific Committee (SC) of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), we can attest that the signers of the open letter correctly summarized criticisms made by researchers very familiar with Japanese
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