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Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

Alexey Guzey · 15 Nov 2019 · guzey.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    A celebrated popular science book can consistently misrepresent the literature it summarises and contradict its own sources.

    Their wordsI found that the book consistently overstates the problem of lack of sleep, sometimes egregiously so. It misrepresents basic sleep research and contradicts its own sources.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Getting the science wrong in a bestselling health book does real harm to the people who follow it.

    Their wordsWalker’s book has likely wasted thousands of hours of life and worsened the health of people who read it and took its recommendations at face value
    Interesting