Andrea Jones-Rooy

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024 podcast

Or whatever else.

So that's kind of the idea.

But there's never been a meaningful way to study that.

And so you're kind of left with these just so stories that are like, well, there were always protests.

And so you're more likely to keep having protests.

And if a culture had a protest in the past, it had a protest in the future.

But you couldn't ever tease out what was causing it.

And like maybe there was just a lot of injustice during that time.

So this paper, I just am stunned, and I hope it comes out and is peer-reviewed, and it looks plausible to me insofar as I've been able to parse through the data.

But they took advantage of a cultural belief in China that it's a Confucian belief.

that solar eclipses are a sign from the heavens.

This is scientific, I promise.

Solar eclipses are a sign from the heavens that the emperor is not doing a good job.

So during the Qing Dynasty, which is the period that they studied, and this was between 1644 and 1912, which is 268 years, so almost three decades,

During the Qing Dynasty, Confucianism was kind of the way of life, and they show a bunch of evidence to say that a lot of people believed this.

This was kind of the main way of thinking.

It was what everyone agreed on.

And in the Confucian tradition, any natural disaster or celestial phenomena that happens is interpreted as...

the heavens weighing in on how well the emperor is doing.

So some of these things could be a sign that, oh, the emperor is really great.

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