Jonathan Jarry

The dogs are mercifully unaware of the mess we've made of the world.

Cody is just happy to have a new brother.

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

‘Young Sherlock’: Hero Fiennes Tiffin Is a Globe-Trotting Holmes in First Images of Guy Ritchie’s New Series 'Young Sherlock': Hero Fiennes Tiffin is a Globe-Trotting Holmes in First Images of Guy Ritchie's New Prime Video Series

An ancient curse dictates that we must have one Sherlock Holmes adaptation every year.

Next year's will be Young Sherlock Holmes with the dude from the After romance movies.

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To educators teaching critical thinking, they're a great example of how anecdotes from celebrities can make you think they "figured it out"... but when you follow up with them years later, you realize they were full of it.

YouTube video by Mikhaila Peterson Dec 2025 Jordan Peterson + General Update

The Petersons claimed they had figured out health: eat only meat.

Now?
- Jordan “still very unwell”
- Mikhaila had “a difficult pregnancy”
- M’s 7-month-old almost died recently

Don’t get health advice from these people.

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Does Creationism Have a Place in Classrooms? A new poll shows that nearly half of all Canadians believe that creationism—the idea that living things on this planet were created by supernatural forces—should be taught in schools. More troubling,...

A recent poll suggests more Canadians want to see creationism taught in schools but @jonathanjarry.bsky.social reminds us we to be skeptical www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

This ad from Reundisbeom is also a great reminder that foundation strength comes in three forms: preine, inarite, and coredince.

Med students, memorize this!!

An AI-generated cartoon image of the inside of a man's pelvis, where the top line is labelled "excluded hammock." The anatomy also makes little sense.

Remember kids that your excluded hammock is an important part of your anatomy!

Man, I hope that person's small intestine is doing OK.

“Prosecutors said the pattern of harm traces back to an extreme version of the "alkaline diet" the couple imposed on their children, combined with a growing distrust of medical care.”

5-month-old child dead + 3 siblings malnourished.

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Trust in scientists for cancer info is now tied to political leaning in the U.S.

"Estimated probabilities of high trust ranged from 93.7% among liberal respondents to 70.5% among very conservative respondents."

Cc: @caulfieldtim.bsky.social

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“So now when I burn fossil fuels, I’m supporting the arts.” Robin Westrick, Solutions Specialist

Hollywood Films Increasingly Funded By Saudi Arabia https://theonion.com/hollywood-films-increasingly-funded-by-saudi-arabia/

I love this

80 Years of CJAD 800

Montreal radio station @cjad800.bsky.social is celebrating its 80th anniversary tonight. The event will be live-streamed on its YouTube channel, and I believe a very big name will make a surprise appearance.

www.cjad800.com/features/80-...

Die Gefahr durch MAHA: Wie Impfskeptiker und Influencer die USA krank machen Die "MAHA"-Bewegung vereint Elemente aus Wellness-Marketing, Verschwörungserzählungen und stellt Medizin und Wissenschaft infrage. Angeführt wird sie von US-Gesundheitsminister Robert Kennedy Jr. Doch...

If you speak German, I was interviewed here:

Die Gefahr durch MAHA: Wie Impfskeptiker und Influencer die USA krank machen

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Does Creationism Have a Place in Classrooms? www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social via @mcgilloss.bsky.social

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. And nope.

"To quote Carl Sagan, science is a candle in the dark. We must not snuff it out."

YouTube video by CTV News A warning about nicotine patches for long covid

CTV now posts the clips on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9P...

I would also direct you to my longer article, as I go into more details there:
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Also, start drawing family trees.

Dark is one of the best and most intricately planned shows I’ve ever watch.

Keep watching.

And switch to subtitles if you can ;)

true crime podcasters should have a clearance rate except if you’re not able to solve the crime you’re not allowed to do more podcasts

Brief: Have Tech Bros Killed Psychedelics? — Conspirituality "Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really? Derek and Julian break down the performative nature of this stunt and d...

"Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really?

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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.

Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

The Strange Story of Nicotine Patches to Treat Long COVID Long COVID can feel like being adrift at sea, tiringly kicking those legs to stay above water. Social media provides lifebuoys but many turn out to be tricks of the light. What about nicotine? On Face...

I will be on @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social around 18:25 tonight to talk about the strange claim that nicotine patches can help with long COVID.

#Montreal

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During the Friday discussion, Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who was recently named as the panel’s new chair, was overheard telling another panel member that he wanted to talk to “some of the higher-ups” about the panel’s work. “You know, I feel like, you know, it’s, sort of like we feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel,” according to a transcript of the exchange captured by videoconferencing software and obtained by The Washington Post. Asked about those remarks, Milhoan wrote in a text message, “There are pressures from many organizations: federal, industry, medical organizations that are trying to influence by ad hominem attacks, when we are trying to look at and ask for data.”

!!!

The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee.

"We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M

Can you believe we didn't have a single article about evolution on our website? 😲

Fixed.

The opposition to the theory of evolution is not really scientific in nature. As biologist and paleontologist Niles Eldredge of the American Museum of Natural History soberly put it in the foreword to anthropologist Eugenie Scott’s scholarly book on the matter, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, it has nothing to do with stupidity or ignorance. “It’s not,” he wrote, “that creationists don’t understand evolution: it’s that they don’t like it. Indeed, they revile it.” Evolution scrapes against religion, and the religiously minded must decide what to do with the contradiction. Some try to make room for both, while others double down with bad logic.

As for creationism, it is not a science. Intelligent design is a pseudoscience, a rebranding of creationism to sneak into classrooms.

People who oppose evolution don't like that this coherent scientific model scrapes against their religious beliefs.

A new poll shows that nearly half of all Canadians believe that creationism—the idea that living things on this planet were created by supernatural forces—should be taught in schools. More troubling, it seems, is the observation that the fraction of Canadians who think so has gone up in the last year and a half, from 4 in 10 to nearly 5 in 10 now. Are Canadians pushing for religion to creep into the biology curriculum? Not necessarily. The value of this survey is debatable; what isn’t, however, is the profusion of evidence we have for what came to replace creationism: the theory of evolution.

It's easy to dismiss all of these people as cranks and morons and to despair that the world is going to hell.

But again, *how* a survey question is phrased makes a big difference.

A new poll seemingly shows that half of all Canadians are in favour of creationism being taught in their schools.

But the phrasing of the poll's question begs more questions.

My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social

www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

This is important to understand.

Many anti-vaxxers genuinely believe that vaccines are fricking killing kids left and right, so in their mind, they are trying to minimize harm.

This is false... but it doesn't prevent them from believing it.

This piece of land specifically.