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Britannica Attacks - Nature Returns Fire

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-course-one-island-loses-to-nature dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just in case you missed it, Nature has replied to Britannica's criticism of the Nature Britannica-Wikipedia comparison. I think it is fair to say Nature is not sympathetic to Britannica's complaints." The original piece regarding the accuracy comparison, along with the response from Britannica.

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  1. Re:Writing on the wall. by castoridae · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Other objections are simply incorrect. The company has, for example, claimed that in one case we sent a reviewer material that did not come from any Britannica publication."

    That - right there is Brittanica getting desperate & flailing around attempting to attack anyone who criticizes them.

    I agree with you overall, but I think this is a valid complaint by Britannica! They're being attacked for inaccuracies in text they didn't write?

  2. Re:Old media attacks itself by Hard_Code · · Score: 0, Troll

    "of the 123 purported errors in question, Britannica takes issue with fewer than half."

    Nature - we aim for less than 50% inaccuracy!

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    It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
  3. My life has failed by Corbets · · Score: 0, Troll

    I submitted this a week or so ago in the hopes that my life goal of getting an article on Slash. It got rejected, and now someone else gets the credit for submitting it. Is this the part where I start ranting and raving about Slashdot editors? I don't know, it's the first time I've ever tried to submit anything. ;-)