Vaccine Mandates and Passports: A New Fascism in the Western Countries?

A science editor has advocated vaccine mandates to college students and in this reply I am refuting all his mentioned claims while illustrating a scientific point of view of those who refuse to receive mRNA and adenovector based SARS CoV-2 vaccines or allow the governments to mandate them for their children. Meanwhile, these arguments also apply to those who mandated vaccine passports to allow international travel.

Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators 2021

This themed collection in Biomaterials Science highlights the work of emerging investigators in the field of biomaterials science. Editor-in-Chief Jianjun Cheng and Executive Editor Maria Southall introduce the issue.

Let’s be open about this

Despite the emergence of new media, publication of peer-reviewed papers remains the principal way by which scientific research is disseminated. For those of us with British sensibilities about discussing money, it is an uncomfortable truth that publication is not a zero-cost enterprise; articles need to go through various editorial processes, as well as being made available via electronic and/or printed format. All of those stages incur costs. Science Editor Chris Willmott discusses the Biochemical Society's new transformative Read and Publish model.