Puddl Duk wrote:
Lets not delude ourselves. We have a long way to go. I
was just
looking at some old EB articles the other day; Guerrilla [warfare],
written by .......... T. E. Lawrence. And Space-time, written by
.......... Albert Einstein.
EB has literally tens of thousands of superb, first rate articles
written by the world's leading experts and polished by an editorial
staff. Yet we enjoy make fun of a handful of embarrassing errors or
shortcomings that have.
I'd say even the "good" Britannica articles are, with a very few
exceptions, quite bad when it comes to having a neutral point of view.
1911 EB in particular does not even pretend to be neutral, and makes
quite unsupported judgments with astonishing frequency, claiming e.g.
that a particular philosophical viewpoint is "wrong" (even if it's
widely accepted), or that a particular author's work is "overrated", and
so on.
The current edition is certainly much better than 1911, but it still
leaves much to be desired.
-Mark