====== McGill Office for Science and Society ======

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The **McGill Office for Science and Society (OSS)** is a science communications initiative within [[McGill University]].

===== Affiliations =====

==== Funding ====

The OSS is funded by [[McGill University]] and the [[Trottier Family Foundation]].((//Profiles List.// Office for Science and Society. Retrieved September 19, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220919182159/https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/people))
===== Activities =====

The OSS hosts the [[Trottier Public Science Symposium]], one of McGill's largest annual public events, that focuses on science-related topics of current public interest.((//Profiles List.// Office for Science and Society. Retrieved September 19, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220919182159/https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/people))

==== Publications ====

In July 2022, the Office published an article written by [[Jonathan Jarry]] "debunking" the documentary //[[Infertility, A Diabolical Agenda]].//((Jarry, J. (2022, July 12). //Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda Is Anti-Vaxx Sleight-of-Hand Propaganda.// McGill Office for Science and Society. https://web.archive.org/web/20220919182056/https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-pseudoscience/infertility-diabolical-agenda-anti-vaxx-sleight-hand-propaganda)) [[James Lyons-Weiler]] wrote a response in September 2022, arguing Jarry had omitted key facts and describing the piece as "condescending" and "embarrassing."((Lyons-Weiler, J. (2022, September 19). //McGill University Evidently Needs to Hire an Immunologist and a Bioethicist - and Work on Their Academic Hegemony.// Substack; Popular Rationalism. https://web.archive.org/web/20220919182814/https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/mcgill-university-evidently-needs))