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* Otto is the screenwriter and coproducer of the [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]] movie ''[[House of Sand and Fog (film)|House of Sand and Fog]]'' which starred [[Ben Kingsley]] and [[Jennifer Connelly]] and garnered three Academy Award Nominations.
* Otto's 2011 book ''Fool Me Twice: Fighting The Assault On Science In America'' ({{ISBN|978-1605292175}}) received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.<ref>http://www.shawnotto.com/foolmetwice.html</ref>
* Otto's 2016 book ''The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It'' ({{ISBN|978-1571313539}}), with a foreword by [[Lawrence Krauss| Lawrence M. Krauss]], discusses three well-funded aspects of the war on science that impact public policy: identity politics, ideology, and industrialization.<ref name="Radford and Frazier (2017)">{{cite journal |author1=[[Benjamin Radford|Radford, Benjamin]] |author2=[[Kendrick Frazier|Frazier, Kendrick]] |title=The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |date=January 2017 |volume=41 |issue=1 |page=61}}</ref> The book won the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction, in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=Minnesota Book Award Winners & Finalists |url=https://thefriends.org/minnesota-book-awards/minnesota-book-awards-winners/ |website=The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library |publisher=The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library |accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref>
* Otto has his own blog, Neorenaissance, and blogs regularly on ''[[Huffington Post]]''.
* Otto's work has been published in ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', ''[[Salon.com]]'', ''[[Huffington Post]]'', ''[[MinnPost.com]]'', ''[[Issues in Science & Technology]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Perspective: Science on the Campaign Trail |url=http://www.issues.org/25-2/p_otto/ |accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref> ''[[New Scientist]]'', ''[[Scientific American]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=A Plan to Defend against the War on Science |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-plan-to-defend-against-the-war-on-science/ |accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antiscience-beliefs-jeopardize-us-democracy/ |accessdate=16 August 2018}}</ref> and other outlets.