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The criticisms should matter to you! Why do you believe that his representation of research on REM/NREM, light and deep NREM sleep is scientifically accurate?
by guzey 7y ago
The criticisms should matter to you!
Why do you believe that his representation of research on REM/NREM, light and deep NREM sleep is scientifically accurate?
Why do you believe his representation of effects of coffein and sleep medication is scientifically accurate?
I cover this in sections 14.3 and 14.4: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix-common-objections https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix-common-object...
- ebg13 7y agoI don't know why you were flagged, but I vouched you. You're absolutely right that demonstrating egregious errors in one part should necessarily cause one to not take the other parts at face value, aka Michael Crichton's ever-popular Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
- swyx 7y agoi heard about Gell-Mann from some reverential source, and was very tickled to check wikipedia and discover that it is thusly named because "because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have". the trolling is delicious.
- Broken_Hippo 7y agoThis, and exactly this! It doesn't matter if some of the information is correct - once untrue things are peppered in, all facts from the source are suspect and who knows which incorrect facts your brain has.
- copperx 7y agoYou and the parent poster spell caffeine as coffein. Is that an alternative spelling, or was it a joke?
- erituises 7y agoThank you so much for this article. I read his book and one of the points he made was you could never "make up" missing sleep. For example, if you pulled an all nighter, you couldn't make it up the next few days if you slept more. Basically the health effects of missing a day of sleep would affect you for the rest of your life. That was a quite shocking. Were you able to find any information on whether he was exaggerating this?
- guzey 7y agoI didn't look into this in particular but my impression from reading the literature is that this makes zero sense.
- efedorenko 7y agoThat was one of the things that confused the hell out of me as well.
- jedc 7y agoSpeaking for me, I believe Matthew Walker because he's been working in the field for almost twenty years, has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, etc. (Not that I believe everything but by default he gets a huge amount of credibility from me.) You've clearly put a lot of time into your research as your post cites. But you don't have twenty years experience in the field. Why should we believe your analysis? Your criticisms could also be tangential or taking things out of context.