[olig15]

Obviously the article leave a lot of the science out, but this sounds like it’d be an easy thing to test for (which they’ve now done). Why wouldn’t this have been done years ago - I’m not trying g to say they should have done it earlier, as I genuinely don’t know. Is the tech to check this new? How much other science has been based off of this theory in the meantime?

[coldtea]

Did they test it succesfully? Did they make some blunder? Did they misrepresented the importance of their results? Will it replicate? Does it apply to humans?

I wouldn't be bothered with putting much faith on any of the papers coming out, unless I was a researcher in that space. The dust is far from settled.

[olig15]

Oh me neither, I’m less interested in the results and more that (to someone who has no idea behind the science - me), I’m surprised to hear it’s just now only being tested when I’ve heard this was the main theory of sleep for years.