Copyright © 1995 by Steven J. Milloy. All rights reserved. First edition. Published by the Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20002. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 95-72177. International Standard Book Number: 0-9647463-2-8

Introduction

Want to get ahead in public health? Want to "discover" a health risk that will make you famous? Tired of "science" and its cumbersome "scientific method"? Frustrated with customary practices and limitations of traditional public health disciplines like epidemiology and biostatistics?

If you answered "yes" to these questions, then risk assessment is for you. But not just any type of risk assessment. We're not talking about science-driven, common-sense risk assessment. That type of risk assessment too often gets soft-pedaled or even ignored; your good work — and career — end up in public health oblivion.

What we're talking about is the kind of risk assessment that's not confined by the restricting chains of real science. Risk assessment that knows no shame, that will stoop to any level to achieve its self- fulfilling prophecies. In other words — assess for success!

This is an unabashed guide to using risk assessment to climb the public health career ladder. It outlines the E-Z approach to "discovering," "proving" and "marketing" health risks. Here you'll learn how to pick the "right" risk, how to do the "science," how to defend your work, how to "set up" peer review. We'll even tell you which professional journals are best for your work.

This guide has everything you need to know about how to create a risk that will electrify the public, launch you into the pantheon of public health and land those big fat research grants from the federal government.

This is THE guide for the public health superstar wanna-be. Forget about science, the scientific method and all that other junk you learned in college and graduate school. Frankly, that stuff just doesn't cut it any more. This is what you need today.

Copyright © 1996 Steven J. Milloy. All rights reserved. Site developed and hosted by WestLake Solutions, Inc.