After years of research, the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission is about to put forward a sound method for setting catch limits for whaling. But will other considerations undermine the science?
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Butterworth, D. Science and sentimentality. Nature 357, 532–534 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/357532a0
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