Alexey Guzey
Writer and founder of New Science, an organisation set up to build new institutions for the life sciences. He is best known for a line-by-line audit of the sleep researcher Matthew Walker's bestseller, and for a year of interviews with more than sixty working biologists about how their field actually works. He writes at guzey.com and rewrites himself in public.
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Their wordsIt appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.
- 2 years earlier
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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.
↗Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errorsguzey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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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
↗Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errorsguzey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Academia has serious problems, but they are not as catastrophic as they look from outside it.
Their wordsacademia has a lot of problems and it could work much better. However, these problems are not as catastrophic as an outside perspective would suggest.
↗How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigationguzey.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsMy (contrarian, I guess) intuition is that scientific progress in biology is not slowing down.
↗How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigationguzey.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Peer review is one of the things genuinely wrong with academia, not a safeguard that mostly works.
Their wordsSpecific parts of academia that seem to be problematic: rigid, punishing for deviation, career progression; peer review; need to constantly fundraise for professors.
↗How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigationguzey.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsParts that seem to be less of a problem than I initially thought: short-termism; lack of funding for young scientists.
↗How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigationguzey.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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- Most people sleep more than they need to, and are better off deliberately sleeping less.
- Work on large language models is not progress toward artificial general intelligence, because the models do not understand what they read.
- Daytime sleepiness is a normal state to live with rather than a signal to sleep more, so the right amount of sleep is the least you can sustain.