Talk:Institute of Cetacean Research

message: I've just removed a sentence that read:
:The Institute has also been called the "Japanese's Government's whalers".
The source, Hardline warrior in war to save the whale, is an article about Sea Sheperd's Watson and their campaign against whaling. I was expecting the article to quote Watson calling the ICR that, in which case we could amend the sentence along the lines of:
:Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd has said that the scientific research body had "effectively become the Japanese Government's whalers."
The quote, however, comes from the nameless author of the article (or editorial?). I find the bias and inaccuracies in this article as well as the notability and relevance of the author and the remark such that it does not belong. The viewpoint is well represented. We don't need to give a platform for this drivel. --Swift (talk) 22:36, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears to be a mirrored story from [], which appears to be an op-ed piece.--Terrillja talk 22:41, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  At least that source gives the author: John Vidal, the Guardian's environment editor. I would put Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd's stern 'warrior' defies Japanese whalers as the original. --Swift (talk) 23:51, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese Government's whalers 

message: Undoubtedly this is incorrectly formatted comment.  Use of Sea Shepherd propaganda machine to source harvest numbers does little to provide impartial and unbiased perspective.  If numbers of harvested animals are sourced to organizations infamous for their altercations with the organization in question, we can hardly assume unbiased information is included.  Major media outlets and government filings should be sourced as reliable sources of data.  Currently this article is a detriment to Wikipedia, and the use of this source is akin to sourcing "The Eternal Jew" for an article on the history of Judaism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.102.237.50 (talk) 23:32, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sourcing Issues

message: This info also appears in the Whaling in Japan article, almost verbatim except for the graph there. As I & others note in Talk:Whaling in Japan this info shouldn't be in both articles [in full].. The "research" doesn't qualify as scientific because it's not peer-reviewed, and thus should not be given undue weight here.   The extensive JARPA/JARPN sections may belong in one or both of the articles, but not in both at full length. In one or the other, they should be summarized and a link to the full version included.   PrBeacon (talk) 08:50, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: JARPA/JARPN

message: In the Controversy section, I think it would be good to include the accusations by former whalers that members of the Japanese whaling crews are stealing large quantities of whale meat for their own personal profit.  The ICR seems to know of this and does nothing about it.  See   http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100609a9.html   
--Westwind273 (talk) 04:51, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theft of Whale Meat 

message: I think the article could use references from Jun Morikawa's book "Whaling in Japan".  
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20100425a1.html
Specifically, the amakudari system of corruption between government bureaucrats and politicians serves to take control of the Japanese government away from the Japanese people themselves.  It is reminiscent of the military government （軍事政権）that took control of Japan in the years leading up to World War II and led Japan on a similar path that antagonized the international community.  The ICR strikes at the very nature of democracy itself.  --Westwind273 (talk) 11:23, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The ICR as a threat to democracy in Japan 

message: Does anyone know if the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami damaged the ICR whaling fleet? The Whaling fleet was headed back to home port according to this 18 February 2011 press release on the ICR official wwebsite:
http://www.icrwhale.org/pdf/110218ReleaseENG.pdf
Dreammaker182 (talk) 18:13, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tsunami and ICR fleet 

message: Is this just vandalism?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.40.4.248 (talk) 21:14, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It was removed. Thank you for pointing that out. Oda Mari (talk) 08:09, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  CUNTS 

message: I remove this addition as the information is groundless and misleading. Please see these.  and . Oda Mari (talk) 09:35, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  False rumor 

message: I just removed this from the External Links section, because I fail to see the relevance to ICR.  If anyone feels it is relevant, then please figure out how to work it in as reference.  Good luck doing that, especially since the paper is about the North Atlantic.
* Kristin Kaschner et al. Modeling and Mapping Trophic Overlap Between Marine Mammals and Commercial Fisheries in the North Atlantic
Groll†ech (talk) 22:32, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this paper relevant? 

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message: The article at least twice states that "some environmental groups oppose research whaling, claiming it is a cover for commercial whaling" (paraphrased).
I would have assumed that the fact that quite a large number of environmental groups share this view would make "many" a better  indication of the number/proportion of said groups that share said view. 
Regards,  Aardwolf A380 (talk) 11:11, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I would simplify it by omitting the words "some" or "many". Just leave it at "environmental groups oppose research whaling."  Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 17:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Some", or "many" environmental groups oppose research whaling?  

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