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Saturday, 1 September 2012

Science, Reason, Critical Thinking and Spinal Tap


The above post was inspired by a talk by Alom Shaha at a recent Winchester Skeptics talk on The You Atheists Handbook
Posted by Crispian Jago at Saturday, September 01, 2012 5 comments:
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