![]() As the saying goes, the big scandal is how little a scandal this has been.Ģ. A few years ago, if someone were to claim that a celebrated professor of neuroscience and psychology at a major university had published a book on his own field of expertise, and the book was full of scientific and factual errors, that would’ve been a major scandal, no? But now, we’re like, yeah, sure, that’s just more same old same old. While we’re waiting for Walker to respond, I had a few more thoughts:ġ. But it does suggest to me that Guzey did not make any clear or obvious mistakes if he did, I suspect that someone-if not Walker, someone who cares about Walker’s work-would’ve replied by now. The fact that Guzey successfully responded to an anonymous internet commenter does not, of course, rule out the possibility that Walker could have something useful to say here. But I didn’t find that response to be very persuasive, and indeed Guzey replied in detail here. The closest to a response to Guzey that I’ve seen is this by Kinkajoe from reddit forum. It’s hard for me to imagine that Walker hasn’t heard about Guzey’s article by now, but I guess it’s possible that he (Walker) is on vacation or that he’s preparing a response but has not finished yet. ![]() I googled *”matthew walker” “alexey guzey”* and *”matthew walker” sleep* and a few other things, but nowhere did I find any response from Walker to Guzey’s criticisms. Right now, the ball is totally in Walker’s court.Īs of this writing, the ball remains in Walker’s court. ![]() I’d be happy to read a followup article by Michael Walker, “Alexey Guzey’s ‘Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors’ Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors.” That (hypothetical) post could completely turn me around! Then, of course, I’d be waiting for Guzey’s reply, “Michael Walker’s ‘Alexey Guzey’s “Matthew Walker’s ‘Why We Sleep’ Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors’ Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors.” At that point, I’d probably have heard enough to have formed a firm opinion. I read through and I found Guzey’s arguments to be persuasive, but, hey, I’m easily persuaded. I’ve not read Walker’s book and I don’t know anything about sleep research, so I won’t try to judge Guzey’s claims. I few days ago I reviewed Guzey’s post, and I summarized: It’s been a week since Alexey Guzey posted his wonderfully-titled article, “Matthew Walker’s ‘Why We Sleep’ Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors.”
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