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Originally Posted by Shades
Dr. Czeisler sure has a lot of publishers to his name up there. He received funding from them and I doubt it was to write a book, or not only to write a book. Pretty blatant conflict of interest.
Besides this, the extremely low amount of people participating in this so called study is laughable and invalidates any findings really. You need a lot more than a dozen, give or take participants for an actual study.
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I'm not disagreeing that this is really flimsy data to make the conclusions based on, but near as I can see he has 2 publishers in that list ("Penguin Press/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt" and "McGraw Hill"). If he specifically got funding from the publishers for this article, then that definitely is a conflict. I'm just saying that what this says is he got ROYALTIES (which makes me think book sales) not FUNDING which in my mind are 2 totally different things. So throw this research under the bus for the small sample size and possibly questionable methodology, not the funding thing.