Library to host author Shawn Otto

Wed, 02/21/2018 - 4:50pm

Author Shawn Otto will share his new book “The War on Science” at the Lake City Public Library on Wednesday, March 7, at 6 p.m.

Otto is an award-winning science advocate, writer, teacher and speaker. He is the producer of the first U.S. Presidential Science Debates, for which he received the IEEE-USA’s National Distinguished Public Service Award. He helped organize and spoke at the March for Science, and speaks around the world on science and politics.

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