McGill Office for Science and Society
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.1)
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.2)
Publications
In July 2022, the Office published an article written by Jonathan Jarry “debunking” the documentary Infertility, A Diabolical Agenda.3) James Lyons-Weiler wrote a response in September 2022, arguing Jarry had omitted key facts and describing the piece as “condescending” and “embarrassing.”4)
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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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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