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Originally Posted by marcarc
Studies have been done on full moons, and as anybody in law enforcement or in a hospital will tell you, when that happens, people get weird. We KNOW that, I just read yet another study on it.
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What study? There might be slightly more activity because there is more light, but the correlation is slim at best. Of course, anecdotes aren't evidence.
From here:
http://www.livescience.com/strangene..._bad_moon.html
Our expectations influence our perceptions, and we look for evidence that confirms our beliefs.
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researchers Ivan Kelly, James Rotton, and Roger Culver, in their study "The Moon was Full and Nothing Happened" (published in the book "The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal," 1991) examined more than 100 studies of alleged lunar effects and found no significant correlation between phases of the moon and disasters, homicide rates, etc.
But, yes, light from the moon may have an effect on behavior, but so does artificial light. This isn't terribly astonishing.
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If the moon CAN have an effect, then perhaps stars can have an effect.
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Aside from the sun, there is no obvious mechanism. And, no effect has been demonstrated in controlled studies. If you think it deserves more research, by all means, do it.
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For a long time alchemists were ridiculed, imagine wanting to change one thing into another, now of course, its done as a matter of routine. Who's have thought the alchemists would be right.
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They were? Nuclear reactors and particle accelerators have as little to do with alchemy as modern flight has to do with ancient dreams of magical flight.