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You may be interested to read that the Why We Sleep guy committed research misconduct in the book. Guy is totally unrepentant about it.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sle...

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I'm not a huge fan of Dr Walker, and we actually compete with the company he is a "co-founder" of, but I think saying he committed research misconduct is going a bit far.

Misconduct is probably overstating it, and he wrote a popular book, which increased awareness of sleep health.

I appreciate your position, but the record is pretty clear; his actions clearly meet Berkeley's own definition of research misconduct.

Did he publish falsified data in a peer review science journal, or did he publish re-interpreted graphs in a scientific literature book intended for the public at large ?

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