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March 23, 2006

Did NATURE Cook Wikipedia Story?

Nature magazine has some tough questions to answer after it let its Wikipedia fetish get the better of its responsibilities to reporting science. The Encyclopedia Britannica has published a devastating response to Nature's December comparison of Wikipedia and Britannica, and accuses the journal of misrepresenting its own evidence. BookTradeInfo 3/23/06 More in The Register. See also Brittanica's response.

Posted by P. Kaufman at March 23, 2006 3:02 PM