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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

LeftishBrit

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6. Thanks! Sounds like a book I should try and get hold of!

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 11:05 AM

Jan 2014

I remember hearing the rhyme from my dad as a child/teenager, without really understanding it. We didn't have the book in the house, but he might have read it.

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