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				 Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:19 pm    Post subject: Britannica lashes out at Wikipedia comparison study | 
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				The Encyclopaedia Britannica has lashed out at a recent study  by Nature which claimed that
 
Wikipedia "comes close" to Britannica's accuracy in covering scientific topics. Nature
 
compared 50 entries in the online versions of both encyclopaedias and counted 123 inaccuracies in
 
Britannica and 162 in Wikipedia. The ma...read more | 
			 
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