21.  Recently tensions have heightened within the Commission over Japanese whaling, which Tokyo maintains is carried out for scientific reasons.

22.  The study came under attack for scientific reasons as well.

23.  The system has still allowed killing whales for scientific reasons.

24.  While there are good scientific reasons to think they are onto something, the experiments to settle it are not finished, and the optimists could be dead wrong.

25.  Japan and Norway are the only member countries that continue to hunt whales despite the moratorium, officially for scientific reasons.