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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?". <ref> Aaron Wildavsky [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/bek56e00 Do Rodent Studies Predict Human Cancers?] Scientific report. 1993. 45 pp. Bates No. 2028385413/5457</ref> 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?". This work was later cited in a work titled "Passive Smoke: The EPA's Betrayal of Science and Policy" authored by two other tobacco industry consultants, [[Gio B. Batta Gori]] and [[John Luik|John C. Luik]] <ref>Aaron Wildavsky [http://web.archive.org/web/20030621133131/www.independent.org/tii/media/pdf/TIR11_Wildavsky.pdf Regulation of Carcinogens: Are Animal Tests a Sound Foundation?] The Independent Review. Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1996</ref><ref>Gio Gori and John Luik [Passive Smoke: The EPA's Betrayal of Science and Policy] Printout/scientific publication. 1999. 12 pp. Philip Morris Bates No. 2064801644/1655</ref>
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.
