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Good thing then that Why We Sleep was hyped by always reliable and accurate New York Times, so we know we can trust it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/book
by xyzzyz 4y ago
Good thing then that Why We Sleep was hyped by always reliable and accurate New York Times, so we know we can trust it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/books/review/snooze-michael-mcgirr-sleep-dreams.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/books/review/snooze-micha...
I mean, this Mathew Walker guy has been thoroughly vetted for accuracy by the diligent fact checkers from places known for integrity, like CNN
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/tv/2020/10/15/matthew-walker-sleep-immune-covid.cnn https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/tv/2020/10/15/matthew-walker-...
or NPR
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/558152847/why-we-sleep https://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/558152847/why-we-sleep
More seriously, though, of course it’s true that smart and confident sounding people are going to dupe Joe Rogan. He doesn’t even pretend to be any sort of intellectual or rational truth-seeker. It is more concerning that such lousy kind of “expertise” as exhibited by Dr. Matthew Walker is more than good enough to dupe mainstream media organizations as well, but to anyone paying attention, this should not come as any sort of surprise: public trust in experts has been in free fall for more than a decade, and really accelerated in last 3 years. The thing you should ponder about, which you won’t, is that your first instinct here is to slander your ideological opponents, using slurs like “tech bros”.
- horns4lyfe 4y agoWhy is surprising that those organizations were duped though? Are people laboring under the assumption that reporters are smarter than everyone else? Because that’s definitely a mistake.