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He was a founding director of the [[Science and Environmental Policy Project]] (SEPP) [http://www.sepp.org/abtsepp.html] and he was on May 10, 1993 one of the keynote speakers at a conference in Paris organized by SEPP and the [[International Center for a Scientific Ecology]] (ICSE). His speech was called "Do Rodent Studies Predict Human Cancers?". [http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2028385413-5457.html] The [[Independent Institute]], where he was a Research Fellow and a member of the Board of Advisors, published this speech in spring 1996 under the title "Regulation of
Carcinogens: Are Animal Tests a Sound Foundation?". [http://web.archive.org/web/20030621133131/www.independent.org/tii/media/pdf/TIR11_Wildavsky.pdf]
Wildavsky is perhaps most famous for his role in developing the Cultural Theory of risk. In 1982, he and anthropologist Mary Douglas wrote Risk and Culture. This book was both a critique of environmentalists, which they argued shared a worldview with sectarian groups like the Amish, as well as an initial statement of Cultural Theory. Later, he co-authored Cultural Theory with Richard Ellis and Michael Thompson, expanding the Cultural Theory concept and showing how it related to earlier theories in political science and anthropology.
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