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1) Are you a sleep researcher? Links to research? 2) Do you have ANY proof/citations to back your claim? 3) To call ANYTHING in history 'utter bullshit' and 'ne

1) Are you a sleep researcher? Links to research? 2) Do you have ANY proof/citations to back your claim? 3) To call ANYTHING in history 'utter bullshit' and 'never existed' is the kind of BOLD CLAIM that professional historians are known to undertake only with a large background of research behind them. Do you have the extraordinary backing for your extraordinary claims? 4) You call humanity stupid. Considering 1, 2, and 3, would you consider toning down the language? EVEN IF you had ALL THE EVIDENCE IN THE WORLD to support you, that would sound mean. Considering you present none, would you agree with the assessment this is an unnecessarily arrogant and 'negative' comment that really doesn't deserve to be in this otherwise generally respectful and civilized forum? edit: spelling.

aaron695 11y ago
I'm sorry but group think is a serious issue. And this is a major attack on basic science. We are swapping in wife's tales for fact. You mightn't think it doesn't matter on this issue, but it does. Sleep is an incredibly important part of our lives and has major health ramifications. This split sleep idea, comes up again and again and again and is stated as fact without even question, there's no 'one theory thinks'. This is an insane way for us to be acting in the age of science. It is obviously fiction. There's 7 billion people on earth. 2.5+ billion people on less than $2 per day. Over a billion without electricity. You don't get much more medieval than that but we have to rely on cold reading documents hundreds of years old? If it was a one off then I mightn't care. But it's common form on the web for many topics. We need to find a way of stopping it. If I sounded mean to be heard, then so be it, I'm happy to be downvoted, that's what downvoting is for, changing behaviour. Hopefully people will see there's upvotes to be had and move in with nicer ways of saying it or prove me wrong and get even more up votes. Anything that's gets us out of these topics based solely on magic.
- Apocryphon 11y ago
  There's a big difference between Ekirch's biphasic sleep model and the pseduoscientific polyphasic sleep lifehack popularized on the internet. If this theory is really so corrosive and wrong, why have no other experts attacked it?
  - aaron695 11y ago
    Roger Ekirch is a historian. Why has no scientist confirmed it? Group think is my theory.

aaron695 11y ago

I'm sorry but group think is a serious issue. And this is a major attack on basic science. We are swapping in wife's tales for fact. You mightn't think it doesn't matter on this issue, but it does. Sleep is an incredibly important part of our lives and has major health ramifications. This split sleep idea, comes up again and again and again and is stated as fact without even question, there's no 'one theory thinks'. This is an insane way for us to be acting in the age of science. It is obviously fiction. There's 7 billion people on earth. 2.5+ billion people on less than $2 per day. Over a billion without electricity. You don't get much more medieval than that but we have to rely on cold reading documents hundreds of years old? If it was a one off then I mightn't care. But it's common form on the web for many topics. We need to find a way of stopping it. If I sounded mean to be heard, then so be it, I'm happy to be downvoted, that's what downvoting is for, changing behaviour. Hopefully people will see there's upvotes to be had and move in with nicer ways of saying it or prove me wrong and get even more up votes. Anything that's gets us out of these topics based solely on magic.

Apocryphon 11y ago
There's a big difference between Ekirch's biphasic sleep model and the pseduoscientific polyphasic sleep lifehack popularized on the internet. If this theory is really so corrosive and wrong, why have no other experts attacked it?
- aaron695 11y ago
  Roger Ekirch is a historian. Why has no scientist confirmed it? Group think is my theory.