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Overview

The highly acclaimed book "Why We Sleep"¹ faced criticism from the scientific community, namely independent researcher Alexey Guzey which identified a number of inconsistencies. These were echoed byAndrew Gelman² which also suggests a response from Walker is needed ³.

Alexey Guzey reviewed the first chapter which took him 130 hours and estimated the whole book would take over 3,000 hours.

There are likely hundreds of thousands of readers who are genuinely interested in knowning the confidence as supported by research community behind all the facts presented in the book.

Perhaps this could be achieved with the help of a larger community that could check the facts with the purpose to correctly inform the public.

Footnotes

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep ↩

2. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/18/is-matthew-walkers-why-we-sleep-riddled-with-scientific-and-factual-errors/ ↩

3. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/24/why-we-sleep-update-some-thoughts-while-we-wait-for-matthew-walker-to-respond-to-alexey-guzeys-criticisms/ ↩