"Save The Whales" Returns From the Dead

Just when you thought the utterly hillarious enviro-nazi craze from yesteryear was gone, it comes back from the dead...

Study: Nets Drown 1,000 Cetaceans Daily

This article can be summed up as "Save the Whales"...Let's see how credible this article is...

"Nearly 1,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises drown every day after becoming tangled in fishing nets and other equipment, scientists say in what appears to be the first global estimate of the problem.

Annually, the researchers said 308,000 of the marine mammals die unintentionally in fishermen's hauls."

I believe Mr. Mark Twain once had something to say about statistics...

By the way, ever notice how these reports always mention "scientists"? That word makes us think of distinguished scholars with beards...Trusted men, in effect. This careful usage of words blinds you to the fact that these people may just have agendas.

"The report was released by World Wildlife Fund, a Washington-based advocacy group, as governments gather in Berlin for the 55th annual International Whaling Commission (news - web sites) meeting that begins Monday."

Well, there certainly can't be any agenda at work here...I mean, WWF isn't known for being a left-wing, eco-nazi organization at all...Oh wait, they are...

I mean, they aren't releasing this alarmist report just to disrupt an perfectly legal international conference...Oh wait, they are.

What exactly could be the real agenda at work here?

"There is need to harvest seafood," said Michael Moore of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Massachusetts' Cape Cod. "We should be able to feed the planet without driving non-food species to extinction. But I'm not sure we can."

Gee, this guy doesn't have an agenda...Nooooo, not at all...

But how did these esteemed professionals arrive at these alarming numbers?

"To reach the worldwide estimates, the researchers resorted to multiplying the U.S. statistics. They acknowledged their results were "very crude," but said mortality figures in more remote countries were not available."

Yep, I want fishing policy to be determined by "very crude" measurements that have been colored by a hillariously apparent bias...