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I dont know any off hand but Mathew Walkers book "Why we sleep" talks about them. Apparently there are more road traffic accidents the day after the clocks change in spring when many people loose an hours sleep.

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

Immensely frustrating how many people are citing his book in a thread about one of your own blog posts, of all places. I was so glad to see your post about it at the time, and this experiment is an interesting follow up.

"Why We Sleep" is everything wrong with "science" today, and as a person who also isn't a huge fan of sleeping, I'm desperate to understand the real drawbacks to a lack of sleep. That dumpster fire of a book has set back honest research on the subject by years.

Just venting, as I know you agree. Thanks again for your contributions to sanity.

Thanks!

It's kind of a long article, but I can't see anything in it that refutes the point about road accidents.

I did not look into his claims about road accidents but given that Walker misrepresents and so much of the research (and sometimes falsifies it) on sleep, I would not be willing to believe such claim simply based on him saying this in the book.

I find that quite a weak argument, it sounds like "he said some things wrong, everything he says must be wrong".

As far as I remember he cited peer reviewed articles. Anyway a quick search turned up this:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...

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