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And here is your host, David Barr

Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 232 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Sean Otto. He's the author of the novel

Sins of Our Fathers and his film The House of Sand and Fog was nominated for three

Academy Awards. In 2007 he co-founded science debate.org, which is dedicated to the creation of a presidential

science debate, and he often writes about science for magazines such as Science, Salon.com, The

Huffington Post, New Scientist, and Scientific American.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new book, The War on Science.

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