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Udik on April 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Fact...

> this claim strikes me as so likely to be true that I wouldn’t bother trying to find a citation for it

This seems to be the source of just every factoid. You took something that just sounds true to you and made it into an objective statement.

staticautomatic on April 4, 2021 [–]

I didn’t make it into anything and I don’t take it as axiomatic, I just wouldn’t spend time looking it up. It also sounds true to me based on my knowledge of biology, upon which I get to draw inferences I think are reasonable.

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