There’s a difference between a field where we have clear evidence that one of the senior scientists in the field falsified data and afterward he lost status for doing that and a field that just doesn’t care. There’s misbehavior by the people who allow Walker to give a keynote speech despite him making up a lot of claims in his book.
I’m very interested in the idea that most of the negative recorded effects of sleep deprivation are caused by sleepiness, not sleeplessness. However, there are some effects that you cannot attribute to sleepiness, like hormonal changes.
If you read the comments then guzey specially advised against changing sleep schedules by multiple hours in a single week the way that happened within that study.
Making an intervention for a single week tells you little about what happens in people with chronic exposure to the same conditions.
There’s a difference between a field where we have clear evidence that one of the senior scientists in the field falsified data and afterward he lost status for doing that and a field that just doesn’t care. There’s misbehavior by the people who allow Walker to give a keynote speech despite him making up a lot of claims in his book.
If you read the comments then guzey specially advised against changing sleep schedules by multiple hours in a single week the way that happened within that study.
Making an intervention for a single week tells you little about what happens in people with chronic exposure to the same conditions.