[richardwigley]

From Doc linked from the page: "Dr. Czeisler received royalties from McGraw Hill, Penguin Press/Houghton" [1]

It's shaming of the BBC not to have dealt with the findings more critically, rather than regurgitation of the press release. The characterization of iPads as e-readers in the context of the royalties looks suspicious.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/12/18/1418490112

[nyc640]

He's the fourth author and receiving royalties from publishers for use of his intellectual property (at some unspecified point in the past) probably isn't uncommon for a leading researcher in a field, particularly one that is employed by Harvard Medical School.

I'm not saying the paper is necessarily without its faults because of who he is (again, noting that he is only the fourth author of the paper), but implying that the paper was somehow funded by the publishing industry seems misleading at best.

[loco5niner]

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.