TOKYO: When Japanese researchers said earlier this year that eating whale meat could help prevent dementia and memory loss, the news provoked snorts of derision – it couldn’t be real science, went the retort.
Despite protestations of academic rigour from the men and women who do the work, anything involving the words “Japan”, “whaling” and “research” suffers from a credibility gap in the court of global public opinion.
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