{"id":10843,"date":"2012-04-16T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/04\/16\/congratulations-shawn-otto\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:00:03","slug":"congratulations-shawn-otto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/congratulations-shawn-otto\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Shawn Otto!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005OS15ZC\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B005OS15ZC\">Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B005OS15ZC\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Shawn Otto has won the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/shawnotto.com\/neorenaissance\/blog20120414.html\">Minnesota Book Award<\/a>.   The award is very well deserved.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/10\/shawn_ottos_book_fool_me.php\">writeup of the book<\/a>,  and here&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/11\/radio_interview_with_shawn_ott.php\"> a radio interview with the author<\/a> that we did a couple of months back.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn&#8217;s book is a critically important analysis of science policy, its potentials and failings, in a world of denialism and politics.  As you know, Shawn has been involved with Science Debate (see the big badge on the sidebar?) and the Science Pledge.  I&#8217;m pleased to announce that in the political campaign that I was recently involved in, both candidates seeking a party endorsement for US Congress made reference to material from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005OS15ZC\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B005OS15ZC\">Fool Me Twice<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B005OS15ZC\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Shawn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Otto has won the prestigious Minnesota Book Award. The award is very well deserved. Here&#8217;s my writeup of the book, and here&#8217;s a radio interview with the author that we did a couple of months back. Shawn&#8217;s book is a critically important analysis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/congratulations-shawn-otto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations Shawn Otto!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[686,40,2765],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2OT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}