http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11033/nature-concludes-wikipedia-not-bad/ A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11033/nature-concludes-wikipedia-not-bad/#comment-25765 Looking At Cold Fusion Through The Eyes Of Britannica and Wikipedia « MaisonBisson.com Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:09:13 +0000 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/?p=11033#comment-25765 [...] The argument about Wikipedia versus Britannica continues to rage in libraryland. The questions are about authority and the likelihood of outright deception, of course, and a recent round brought up the limitations of peer review as exemplified in the 1989 cold fusion controversy, where two scientists claimed to have achieved a nuclear fusion reaction at room temperature. Randy Souther, from the University of San Francisco, asked us to look more carefully: FYI, cold fusion in 1989 was a media fiasco, but not a fraud. The research is still controversial, but continues today with publications in more than 50 peer-reviewed journals. But you would never realize this by reading Britannica’s one-paragraph article, which is stuck in 1989; Wikipedia’s gives a reasonable overview, and is up-to-date. [...] [...] The argument about Wikipedia versus Britannica continues to rage in libraryland. The questions are about authority and the likelihood of outright deception, of course, and a recent round brought up the limitations of peer review as exemplified in the 1989 cold fusion controversy, where two scientists claimed to have achieved a nuclear fusion reaction at room temperature. Randy Souther, from the University of San Francisco, asked us to look more carefully: FYI, cold fusion in 1989 was a media fiasco, but not a fraud. The research is still controversial, but continues today with publications in more than 50 peer-reviewed journals. But you would never realize this by reading Britannica’s one-paragraph article, which is stuck in 1989; Wikipedia’s gives a reasonable overview, and is up-to-date. [...]

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