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Because the data should speak for itself.

Dead Man Talking applies quantitative rigour to the questions that matter most — public health, economic policy, mortality trends, and the claims governments make about all of them.

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Who writes this?

Joel Smalley. Former derivatives trader and quantitative analyst. 30 years of building models that have to be right — because money was on the line. Now applying the same discipline to public policy data.

Published on ResearchGate (554K+ reads, 19 citations). Co-authored with professors at Queen Mary University of London, King’s College London, and MIT. Research cited by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in US public health policy reform.