Jonathan Jarry
Jonathan Jarry, MSc is a Canadian science communicator based in Montreal, Québec.1) He is frequently quoted in local, national and international media on issues of science and pseudoscience and is a regular on CTV News Montreal.
Career
Jarry works at the McGill Office for Science and Society, where he writes on the topics of science and pseudoscience.2) He is the co-host of the Body of Evidence podcast alongside Dr. Christopher Labos.3)
In July 2022, the OSS published an article written by Jarry “debunking” the documentary Infertility, A Diabolical Agenda.4) James Lyons-Weiler wrote a response in September 2022, arguing Jarry had omitted key facts and describing the piece as “condescending” and “embarrassing.”5)
Media
Jarry has appeared as a guest and contributed to a number of media outlets and fact-checking platforms including BBC News, Business Insider, CBC News, CJAD, CTV News, Daily Beast, Global News, The Guardian, National Post, PolitiFact, Rolling Stone, Skeptical Inquirer, Toronto Star, Vice, Wall Street Journal and WIRED.
1)
Home. Jonathan Jarry. Retrieved September 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220908135532/https://www.jonathanjarry.com/
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Profiles List. Office for Science and Society. Retrieved September 19, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220919182159/https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/people
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About. The Body of Evidence. Retrieved September 19, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220919191256/https://bodyofevidence.ca/about
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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
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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