Biologists Helping Bookstores


	Biologists Helping Bookstores

laceym

8-1-2007 12:03 AM

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books, bookstores, science, religion, woo

laceym says:

Reshelving pseudo-scientific nonsense since 2007

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8-1-2007 10:24 PM

AcesLucky

What would you call it? Non-science? Or just plain Fiction? Or, science-fiction?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/947b6792-02d2-42ba-9caa-658fc2f46730/96621F93-ACC4-4632-850B-307AD1A228FE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://biologistshelpingbookstores.blogspot.com/2007/07/start-of-something-beautiful.html" href="http://biologistshelpingbookstores.blogspot.com/2007/07/start-of-something-beautiful.html" style="font-size: 11px;">biologistshelpingbookstores.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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