Am I just completely oblivious?
Aug. 30th, 2006 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedusorI just got a message through the NPL list about a study, published in Nature magazine, that compared scientific Wikipedia articles with online Encyclopedia Britannica articles and found about 4 errors per Wiki article and 3 per Britannica article. Britannica argued that the study was unfounded, and the battle between Nature and Britannica continued in public statements, editorials, and (wow, how professional) ads in the London Times.
The original article was printed last December. How on earth did I not know about this before now? I've spent the last hour or so reading the article, the supplementary information about the study, Britannica's response to the study (PDF), Nature's initial rebuttal (PDF), an editorial from the March issue of Nature, and a more detailed rebuttal to Britannica's attack (PDF). I tried to find the newspaper ads referenced by Nature, but they don't seem to be online. I'm pretty sure Nature is in the right here, anyway.
This is absolutely fascinating.
The original article was printed last December. How on earth did I not know about this before now? I've spent the last hour or so reading the article, the supplementary information about the study, Britannica's response to the study (PDF), Nature's initial rebuttal (PDF), an editorial from the March issue of Nature, and a more detailed rebuttal to Britannica's attack (PDF). I tried to find the newspaper ads referenced by Nature, but they don't seem to be online. I'm pretty sure Nature is in the right here, anyway.
This is absolutely fascinating.
