Sleep fallacies
Alexey Guzey critiques Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep (2017). In the first chapter of Why We Sleep, Walker:
- completely misrepresents the relationship between sleep and longevity and between sleep and cancer (Section 1)
- erroneously states that getting a good night’s sleep is always beneficial (Section 2)
- erroneously states that patients with fatal familial insomnia die because of lack of sleep (Section 3)
- seems to invent a “fact” that the WHO has declared a “sleep... Читать дальше...