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Originally Posted by KG8
keep looking erick, the truth is out there!
The moon and madness: a comprehensive perspective at
pubmed.gov , a service of the national library of medicine
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...t_uids=7440737
... based upon both new data and that already in the literature, combined studies that used the same segments of the synodic cycle. Such analysis indicated a disproportionate frequency of abnormal behavior at the time of the new moon, at the time of the full moon, and in the last half of the lunar phase. These findings were regarded as generally congruent with folklore.
PMID: 7440737 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE |
The problem with social sciences is how easy it is to get the result you are looking for. How do you define "abnormal behaviour"? What window around the Full Moon (or any other lunar phase) do you examine? It is very easy to get a statistical fit up.
I would suggest that most studies show the opposite:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/c...TRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/conten...6?crawler=true
http://psychservices.psychiatryonlin...ull/56/2/221-a
which is what you would expect. Nil effect.
I mean, how could the Moon possibly affect human behaviour (except in terms of increased illumination around Full Moon)?
There is no theoretical explanation to account for this.
There are no reproducable studies to support this.
It is just myth and folklore.
The only effect of the Full Moon would be to bring people outdoors (except astronomers) for possibly nefarious activities.