National Geographic: A new study by Japan’s national whale-research program is drawing sharp rebuke from scientists and conservationists who say the results did not necessitate killing more than 4,000 whales. Critics have long accused Japan of using its scientific whaling program to circumvent a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). In the new research, Kenji Konishi of Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research and his colleagues analyzed data from 4,704 …