Steven Milloy

In the weeks after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the American people were further alarmed when several people died of anthrax inhalation, and anthrax was discovered in several letters to political and media figures. In the following viewpoint, Steven Milloy argues that contrary to alarmist warnings by some public health officials, terrorists cannot readily use anthrax to easily kill thousands of people. While anthrax spores are easy to obtain, he asserts, it is very difficult to render them into a powder—the deadliest form of anthrax—and even more difficult to deliver such anthrax to mass numbers of people. Milloy, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, is the author of Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams and the publisher of the JunkScience.com website.

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