I guess I don't understand the "logic" used to collect unbiased facts in the scientific community. First of all in the study you linked, Roy (thank you), they started with a bias by only requesting the crimes from 4 days each month. This cuts out the chance that they may have seen something significant at any other time during the month. What if the number of crimes midway between each quarter was significantly lower than each quarter day. Yes, with one of the two towns data was collected from, they took the few days proceeding and following each quarter but it was a very small town and it doesn't sound like they did the same with the other since it doesn't say that town gave them more than what they asked for, 4 days each month. Right there the test is biased. It should have contained all the data to look for repeated patterns, an certainly not different data from each town.

Then they took out any crime that had alcohol involved. That is assuming the alcohol alone is the cause rather than allowing for the possibility that the blood is thinner and more easily moved as normal water, oceans or lakes are with the pull of the Moon. We all know, I'm sure, that alcohol decreases our inhibitions making it easier to act on pure raw animal instinct. Isn't that what this test is about?

Swansont, what would you like me to do to "test" the cause. Yes, the average woman's cycle is 28 days but each woman has their own natural cycle, some being 29, 30. And each has their own fertile time, that when healthy and unobstructed correlates to a certain time of the lunar phase, mine with the 3rd quarter. It just so happens that that is opposite of when I was born. I have also noticed with those few I know who set their own daily schedule of rising and setting (not real easy for most since school and job dictate the daily routine), when fairly healthy, tend to rise at the same time of day that they were born. If you could collect enough unbiased data, how would you test this? Wouldn't observation be valid?

hhEb, you're right, 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes. But that doesn't mean that the female cycle is not connected to the lunar cycle. I forget which species, but I remember reading the discovery that a certain sea life always progagates at a certain time in sync with the Moon in some way.

Gillianren, I'm not sure yet whether I am not communicating clearly or you are purposely misunderstanding me based on you own bias. We must have open minds here to have open ears. Again, I apologize if i talk funny. I was referring to cycles of fertility and the fact that each person has their own normal. I was not making an issue of the fact that I couldn't conceive after coming off the pill. My point was, even though I was still following MY normal 28 day cycle, I could't conceive until that cycle once again put my fertile quarter at the 3rd quarter of the Moon, actually, I think it is 1 or two days before 3rd quarter, I'd have to check my notes.

During the days of my greenhouse propagation I originally just sowed seeds according to when I wanted them to sell, not taking into account the lunar phase. When I learned about planting according to type of plant and phase of Moon, my germination rate increased to probably 95-99%. I was blown away. I had to be more sparing in the seed I sowed because I way over produced. Annuals germinate best during 1st and 2nd quarter, perennials and biennials during 3rd quarter. And of course, sowing when Moon is transiting water signs makes a big difference. I also found that when we mow the lawn during the 4th quarter, Moon in fire sign, we mow maybe only every 3-4 weeks. Yes, I know, rainfall will have an influence too, and fertilizer, so don't even go there. I kept this in mind as I observed.

Oh, and just so you know, they say smoking causes low birth weight too. I have smoked through 7 pregnancies and each baby just got bigger and bigger, even though my body is designed for smaller than average. During the pregnancies that I wasn't under undue stress in any way and the doctor didn't interfer I delivered within a week of due.