Links for 2005-12-16
- Wikipedia survives research test "The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows. The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy."
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
I'm quite sure its science content is very accurate, it's the political and social stuff where people start throwing in opinions or even blatant lies. I use wikipedia all the time, just to satisfy my own interest, but I would never trust it for serious research.
→ Posted by: Jessica at December 16, 2005 10:25 AM
I guess this ties in with the 'blogs' versus 'journalism' debate. Blogs are a very empowering way to communicate however given that there's no accountability, how can what you read be trusted?
Although, while traditionally journalism has been seen as a profession obsessed with the objective reporting of facts - lately we have seen that even they are less trusted these days.
→ Posted by: Andrew Knott at December 17, 2005 5:15 PM
Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica? Having looked at both I will first concur then praise Einstein (A sientist) I use neither ;)
→ Posted by: Sardonios the Magnificent at December 19, 2005 4:09 AM