Andrea Jones-Rooy

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

Some of them could be a sign that the emperor is really bad.

And we almost see this in the US where they say, oh, we had Hurricane Katrina because God hates conservatives or whatever, right?

We kind of drum that stuff up.

But in this case, it really was taken very seriously.

And total solar eclipses were seen as the most serious condemnation of the leaders.

And total solar eclipses are something that are widely observable by everybody in a particular area.

So just like the murder of George Floyd was something that everyone in the U.S.

could observe, a total solar eclipse, we have one coming up in the U.S., everyone can see it.

And so their argument, and it's slightly complicated, but it works out in the data in, I think, a pretty compelling way,

Their argument is that total solar eclipses happened in China over these 300 years of the Qing Dynasty.

And during the times that we had these total solar eclipses, that was a coordinating moment for people who were going to have uprisings.

And they were largely, Steve, as you said, they were peasant uprisings against inequality of wealth.

They were much more likely during these total solar eclipses because it was a shared signal that, aha, see, the emperor is weak.

The emperor is no good.

We're going to actually get what we're asking for if we go to a protest.

And so they have a three-tiered study.

Step one is, are peasant uprisings in the Qing dynasty more likely during total solar eclipses in China?

And they map—

protest data against NASA data on total solar eclipses and find, lo and behold, yes, you are more likely to see protests during the periods when there is a total solar eclipse.

Then they compare it to protests today, and I believe it's from 2001 to 2013 is what they do.

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