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Title: The Gods must be crazy.(Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians)(Book Review)
Author: Michael Shermer
Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 11 Issue: 4 Page: 82(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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