Well we thought the Raelians were an odd bunch, but apparently the Japanese make them look like rank amateurs in the weird science stakes.
In bizarre attempts to justify their claims for whale hunting as scientific research they have been cross-breeding cows and whales. Not by forcing a cow in scuba gear into a big tank with a randy cetacean (even with their prehensile penises this is going to be tricky), but mad scientist style.
An official scientific review of Japan's bizarre experiments with test-tube minke babies and attempts at cross-breeding cows with whales has exploded the claim whale slaughter is "research".
Scientists have analysed the 43 research papers produced by Japan after 18 years of killing whales and concluded they are useless, strange and esoteric.
Some of the experiments involved injecting dead minke sperm into cow eggs
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Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research also injected cow and pig egg cells with minke cells as part of its whaling program.
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The head of Australia's scientific delegation to the IWC, Dr Nick Gales, said the research not only lacked credibility - it was downright strange.
"(The research involves) really bizarre and very strange experiments with sheep and pigs and eggs. It's totally esoteric, very strange research," he said from London.
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This whole pseudoscientific front for commercial whaling always seemed farcical but attempts to create cowhales or moominkies underlines how silly this all is. Unless, of course, they are trying to breed a Kaiju Kow to combat the Galactic Grass Invasion, but if so we deserve to know!!
Given that it was recently suggested that whales might be smarter than us and only this is week we also heard about the dolphin who saved two whales (leading to suggestions that they may have communicated), it strikes me we have a lot more valid science that needs doing, none of which requires harpooning and eating the test subjects.
http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndat ... hales.html
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And what will I dip it in, butter or steak sauce? 
