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Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, aNature investigation finds. UPDATE: see details of how the data were collected for this article in thesupplementary information. UPDATE 2 (28 March 2006). The results reported in this news story and their interpretation have been disputed byEncyclopaedia Britannica.Nature responded to theseobjections .
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