Britannica Rips Nature Magazine on Accuracy Study

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Encyclopedia Publisher Says Journal's Research was Invalid,
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" The editors of Nature rearranged
and reedited Britannica articles before sending them out to reviewers, said
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The errors by Nature cited in Britannica's analysis included:
-- Rearranging, reediting, and excerpting Britannica articles.

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But in a 7,000-word,
article-by-article analysis of the Nature study posted today on the company's
Web site ( http://www.
"This study has been cited all over the world, and it's invalid ," said
Dale Hoiberg, Britannica's editor-in-chief.
"The thing for Nature to do now is to issue a full, public retraction of
the study and the article in which it was reported," said Hoiberg.

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"We have never claimed that Britannica is error-free," he added, "but
Nature attributed to us dozens of inaccuracies that simply were not
inaccuracies at all. By its flawed analysis and false accusations, Nature did us a
great disservice. The company is known for the 32-volume
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Taken together, Britannica said, these and many other errors by Nature
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Some were cut and pasted
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Several
of the "articles" Nature sent its outside reviewers were only sections
of or excerpts from Britannica entries. Even according to Nature's own figures,
which grossly exaggerated the number of inaccuracies in Britannica,
Wikipedia had a third more inaccuracies than Britannica, yet the
headline of Nature's report misleadingly implied otherwise.
Elliot Gold will co-host the event with Richard Dalton, TeleSpan's
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Nature falsely attributed inaccuracies to
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inaccurate and which Nature's editors failed to verify.

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Published in Nature's December 15, 2005, issue, the study claimed to have
found that the science coverage in the Encyclopaedia Britannica was only
slightly more accurate than that in Wikipedia.
Britannica also said it was rebuffed in its repeated attempts to obtain
from Nature the original data on which the study's conclusions were based.com if we didn 't ask our users to participate in
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everything about the journal's investigation . Nature claimed to have found dozens of inaccuracies in the
Encyclopaedia Britannica that didn 't exist and reviewed texts that were not
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Britannica's analysis took six weeks to complete and involved, in addition
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