The Science of Sleep Deprivation

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1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   2 corrections applied: Unverified researcher name; flu-vaccine sleep study is Spiegel, Sheridan & Van Cauter (2002, JAMA) | NASA nap study (Rosekind et al. 1994) was on commercial airline pilots; alertness improved ~54%, not 100%

   Before

   Body text was already correctly fixed: "Spiegel, Sheridan, and Van Cauter found that individuals who slept fewer than six hours..." and "NASA research on commercial airline pilots found that strategic 40-minute naps improved performance by 34 percent and alertness by 54 percent." But the bibliography had no entries for either the Spiegel/Sheridan/Van Cauter (2002, JAMA) flu-vaccine study or the Rosekind et al. (1994) NASA nap study, and the FAQ field still had a napping Q&A that read: "NASA research on military pilots and astronauts found that a 40-minute nap improved performance by 34 percent and alertness by 100 percent."

   After

   Added two missing bibliography entries: Spiegel, K., Sheridan, J. F., & Van Cauter, E. (2002). Effect of sleep deprivation on response to immunization. JAMA, 288(12), 1471-1472. -- and -- Rosekind, M. R., et al. (1994). Crew factors in flight operations IX... NASA Technical Memorandum 108839. Fixed the FAQ answer to: "NASA research on commercial airline pilots found that a 40-minute nap improved performance by 34 percent and alertness by 54 percent."

   Why: Body text corrections (unverified researcher name and pilot population/percentage) were already correctly applied at their primary locations, but two supporting citations were missing entirely from the Sources & Further Reading bibliography, and the FAQ field independently repeated the original fabrication (military pilots / 100 percent) even though the body text was fixed.

   Added both missing citations and corrected the FAQ answer; re-verified the FAQ field still decodes to a valid 5-item array after the fix.

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