Matthew Walker's “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

Re:Matthew Walker's “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientifi... by notRobot on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:01PM (#34166598)

> Regardless of the accuracy of such a barrage of accusations, it takes an inordinate amount of time to respond to the criticism, as it will typically contain of several dozen points each of which require a lengthy response. And by that time it doesn't matter, the accusation will have already been accepted as true.

See also: the gish gallop: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

> The Gish Gallop is the fallacious debate tactic of drowning your opponent in a flood of individually-weak arguments in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument collection without great effort.

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Re:Matthew Walker's “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientifi... by skinnymuch on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:44PM (#34167033)

The book is accepted as true by more people than the criticism. The author got away with it.

Interesting all of the criticisms are individually weak arguments. Like you’re saying no argument is strong?

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Re:Matthew Walker's “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientifi... by notRobot on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:52AM (#34170499)

I'm saying nothing of the sort. I was just pointing out that there's a term for a certain practice. Not even saying that's what is happening in the OP article.

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Re:Matthew Walker's “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientifi... by skinnymuch on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:26PM (#34178205)

My bad for assuming some bad faith. I start arguing with people on HN or Reddit…I’m being stupid.

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