On 12/14/05, Bob Mellish bobmellish@gmail.com wrote:
The Nature article is now up on the Dec 15th issue on their website (subscribers only, though). Unfortunately it doesn't go into details about which articles they checked, though it mentions [[Dmitri Mendeleyev]] as particularly erronous.
Here is the article list: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/multimedia/438900a_m1.html
here is the full article: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html
Entry Encyclopaedia Britannica inaccuracies Wikipedia inaccuracies Acheulean industry 1 7 Agent Orange 2 2 Aldol reaction 4 3 Archimedes' principle 2 2 Australopithecus africanus 1 1 Bethe, Hans 1 2 Cambrian explosion 10 11 Cavity magnetron 2 2 Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan 4 0 CJD 2 5 Cloud 3 5 Colloid 3 6 Dirac, Paul 10 9 Dolly 1 4 Epitaxy 5 2 Ethanol 3 5 Field effect transistor 3 3 Haber process 1 2 Kinetic isotope effect 1 2 Kin selection 3 3 Lipid 3 0 Lomborg, Bjorn 1 1 Lymphocyte 1 2 Mayr, Ernst 0 3 Meliaceae 1 3 Mendeleev, Dmitry 8 19 Mutation 8 6 Neural network 2 7 Nobel prize 4 5 Pheromone 3 2 Prion 3 7 Punctuated equilibrium 1 0 Pythagoras' theorem 1 1 Quark 5 0 Royal Greenwich Observatory 3 5 Royal Society 6 2 Synchrotron 2 2 Thyroid 4 7 Vesalius, Andreas 2 4 West Nile Virus 1 5 Wolfram, Stephen 2 2 Woodward, Robert Burns 0 3