[Pauldo]

full moon and lunar effects

    “…spooky effects have been ascribed to the phases of the moon….But when the statistics are redone properly, the correlation with lunar phase always evaporates….Yet many sensible people—including police officers and emergency room staff—continue to believe otherwise.” –Steven Strogatz

The full moon has been linked to crime, suicide, mental illness, disasters, accidents,  birthrates, fertility, and werewolves, among other things. Some people even buy and sell stocks according to phases of the moon, a method probably as successful as many others. Numerous studies have tried to find lunar effects. So far, the studies have failed to establish much of interest. Lunar effects that have been found have little or nothing to do with human behavior, e.g., the discovery of a slight effect of the moon on global temperature,* which in turn might have an effect on the growth of plants. Of course, there have been single studies here and there that have found correlations between various phases of the moon and this or that phenomenon, but nothing significant has been replicated sufficiently to warrant claiming a probable causal relationship.

Ivan Kelly, James Rotton and Roger Culver (1996) examined over 100 studies on lunar effects and concluded that the studies have failed to show a reliable and significant correlation…

Full article:

http://www.skepdic.com/fullmoon.html

[Machi]

it's a little bit more complex than just full moon = crazy, no full moon = not crazy…

[Pauldo]

it's a little bit more complex than just full moon = crazy, no full moon = not crazy…

you're just crazy all of the time!  ;D

[Robyo]

The moon affecting behavior patterns? I don't know, sounds like a conspiracy theory.  ;D

[PookztA]

i was already aware of this from a very similar article, but I felt like saying that I don't like the bias of articles like this because I have yet to see one acknowledge that a full moon can have some affects on behavior. for example, when i see a full moon, i feel more inspired, motivated, and grateful (which leads to behavioral changes), so even in this sense, the full-moon does affect some people's behavior in more subtle ways (it sure affects mine). Articles like these paint things out to be far too black-and-white, as Machi also pointed out.

[Phantomsoul420]

I have been actually thinking about this since the Supermoon. Someone needs to submit it to Mythbusters…..they would get to the bottom of this nonsense

[Nameless One]

The supermoon's effects were so strong they rippled backwards in time and caused the earthquake in Japan. Sensible, no?

[aktif]

The supermoon's effects were so strong they rippled backwards in time and caused the earthquake in Japan. Sensible, no?

Tell me this is cited from some guy on the internet and I'll take five thousand units please.

[esmokah]

I'm citing a guy on the internet. your order is in the mail, nick. here's his post:

http://www.chilluminati.org/forum/general/full-moon-and-lunar-effects/msg65005/#msg65005

[Pauldo]

I'm citing a guy on the internet. your order is in the mail, nick. here's his post:

http://www.chilluminati.org/forum/general/full-moon-and-lunar-effects/msg65005/#msg65005

that Pauldo guy is f'n awesome!  he's all over the net!

[Nameless One]

If it can happen to the LHC it can happen to the supermoon!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6318034/Could-the-Large-Hadron-Collider-be-held-back-by-its-own-future.html

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