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That kid may grow up to hate his dad. But at least he won't have polio. Photo copyright Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

Aren’t anti-vaxxers, like, so 2008?

I know they are still a loud, obstinate-in-the-face-of-overwhelming-evidence-to-the-contrary group. But anti-vaxxers must be a gaining adherents because a billboard campaign in my hometown has taken over the skylines above Boise buildings. Signs designate those who … read more

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So much depends on those pills. *Copyright Erich Ferdinand.

The situation I describe in my first novel, Chemicals, is nothing short of a “pharmaceutical apocalypse.” Drug cartel terrorists hit Big Pharma where it hurts: their medicine production and storage sites. This is a total wiping out of medicine for

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"Halley's Comet, 1910" by The Yerkes Observatory - Purchased by The New York Times for publication. Another image of Halley's Comet, taken on May 29th, 1910, is available through their online photo archive store, here. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halley%27s_Comet,_1910.JPG#/media/File:Halley%27s_Comet,_1910.JPG

People want to write comets for fun or for profit. And sometimes people ask me, “ECro, how might one go about the process of writing comets?” And I say to them, there are a few easy steps for writing comets.

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Making my eyes pop, that there title on the screen.

Back in the long dark of autumn and winter of 2011, this writer started the first draft of a high-concept, dystopian novel entitled Chemicals.  

While writing it, I listened to the EP Iron by Woodkid on repeat, ad nauseam, until … read more