{"id":112,"date":"2006-03-23T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/03\/nature-calls-er-responds.html"},"modified":"2006-03-23T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T03:13:00","slug":"nature-calls-er-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/nature-calls-er-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature calls, er, responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An editor at <i>Nature <\/i>e-mailed me a response to Encyclopedia Britannica&#8217;s complaints summarized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gillin.com\/2006\/03\/britannica-wikipedia-debate-gets.html\">in this earlier post<\/a>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/press_releases\/Britannica_response.pdf\">see <i>Nature<\/i>&#8216;s response <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/press_releases\/Britannica_response.pdf\">here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/press_releases\/Britannica_response.pdf\">.<\/a> Basically, <i>Nature <\/i>stands by its story and says it took material from non-Britannica reference works because that&#8217;s the content Britannica was posting on Britannica.com and <i>Nature <\/i>was comparing apples to apples. That&#8217;s an explanation but I&#8217;m not sure I buy it. When you question Encyclopedia Britannica&#8217;s accuracy, you really should be sure you&#8217;re talking about the encyclopedia and not a summary written for schoolkids. It doesn&#8217;t appear that <i>Nature<\/i> made that distinction. Other than that, though, the rebuttal provides a plausible defense of the research methodology. And don&#8217;t lose track of the big picture, which is that <i>Nature <\/i>demonstrated that, nitpicking aside, Wikipedia is pretty damned good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An editor at Nature e-mailed me a response to Encyclopedia Britannica&#8217;s complaints summarized in this earlier post. You can see Nature&#8216;s response here. Basically, Nature stands by its story and says it took material from non-Britannica reference works because that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/nature-calls-er-responds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-1O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}