Richard Swan

Richard Swan is an ex-secondary school teacher, now operating as a freelance writer, lecturer and academic. By training and inclination a medievalist, he has organised and participated in a wide range of talks and debates including extra-terrestrial intelligence, animal cognition, Mervyn Peake, T.S.Eliot and Lana Del Rey. He is also partial to Classed Growth claret, if anyone’s offering.

Related Sessions
Sunday 30 October 2011, 9.45am Lecture Theatre 1
Sunday 30 October 2011, 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 2

CAM: Junk Science or Genuine Alternative?

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