For the last two months I've been sleeping for 4 hours a night, thinking about Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep". 130 hours of writing and research and 6000 words later:https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ …
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to people wondering why I care so much about some pop science book: it's already cited a lot and its myths are already being propagated within science in respectable journalspic.twitter.com/lxDFUqG4c6
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I fell for it. Walker's credentials and the difficulty of tracking down primary sources made me think it was factually correct (even if stylistically bombastic). If a pop-science book can't be factual, it's just pop, no science.
