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by xlaacid 1591 days ago
This essay, convinced me that people with no domain specific knowledge can cherry-pick ideas to support any BS they want
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Here is another one of Alexey’s essays that might convince you that people with tons of domain-specific knowledge (and credentials too!) can also cherry-pick ideas to support any BS they want.

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

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

https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1490664815039234051

I think the author has been pretty forthright in seeking critiques from professional sleep researchers and neuroscientists.

I will post random theories about the nature of the universe and I'll tweet that I'm expecting critiques from physicists about my theory.

Damn, should look good on a resume.

Hilarious. Except for the fact that a bunch of neuroscientists actually read my draft and gave me comments a lot of which I incorporated in the essay, e.g. https://guzey.com/theses-on-sleep/#appendix-philipp-streiche...
People with domain specific knowledge do it just as often. It's a human condition.
Did we read different articles?