If you're good at stats and scientific writing, there is money to be made in ghost writing research papers for pharma. They give you the raw trials data, you work it up and write the analysis.
Can you use statistics to make the Koch's latest tax plan work?
Over half of the articles about Zoloft published in 1998-2000 were ghostwritten and funded by Pfizer ;)
Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation by Charles Barber
The cigarrette companies hire statisticians to publish bogus research about the health effects of smoking.
Really any drug company (or an anti-drug organization like the DEA) would be looking for someone who can do dark magic with statistics.
I'll pay you $500,000 to ghostwrite a proof of P=NP or P!=NP.
Hiring a math professor to claim that squaring a circle is possible. 10M OBO.
You mean using a taxicab metric to construct a circle? Been done.