Personally, I trust the results of a sleep study, or any study on anything, by people I don’t know with questionable incentives than I do anecdotes of commenters I’ve been following for 10 years on HN, especially when they align with my own experiences, and conversations I’ve had over beers with people in industry (whatever that might be).

A lot of “science” is junk, not insofar as it’s false, but like water is wet.

Good science: there are compounds in cruciferous vegetables that appear to exert some health benefits.

Junk science: bok choy is green.

If a sleep lab is ignoring the fact of chronotypes (it’s obvious our genetic history would require some people to be predisposed to keep an eye out for toothy clawed things, and dangerous ‘others’) while most of their tribe / community are sleeping), the people who work there do so because it pays the bills, not because they’re passionate about working in the medicine / health industry at all.

I encourage people to get up and walk out if you find yourself at a service provider that doesn’t care about you. Find someone who gives a frak.