Category: New Scientist magazine subscription
Posted by Chris Malone
New Scientist magazine subscription holders reading the latest issue of the publication will notice an article on how the world's whale population may have once been much larger.
The magazine has speculated that the number of whales in the oceans may have vastly outstripped estimates and that the hunting that took place over the last few hundred years may have been more damaging to the population than previously thought.
With the powers that be considering re-legalising commercial whaling once populations reach 54 per cent of their historic levels, the article poses a timely question over the accuracy of those figures.
Commercial whaling has been banned for more than two decades.
Meanwhile, another article questions whether stem cell scientists have been sabotaging their rivals' work.
It comes as a group of senior scientists have warned journals to be aware of high-rankers using their position of authority to wrongly discredit rivals' research and findings.
Although there is little proof of such occurrences, National Institute for Medical Research spokesman Robin Lovell-Badge said that there is a real possibility of it occurring.
