Eric Chudler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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Many people believe that the full moon causes changes in behavior, but just because people believe it doesn't make it true.
People have thought that perhaps because the gravitational effect of the moon and the sun on our tides make changes, perhaps because the body and the brain is full of water, that's perhaps why the moon might affect our behaviour.
The gravitational pull of the sun and the moon on the Earth during a full moon is about the same as it is as a new moon when we can't see the moon at all.
The gravitational pull is about the same.
So the only difference is the reflection of the sun on the moon that we see.
So why aren't people concerned with a new moon?
Why are they only concerned with a full moon?
There's been a number of studies over the past 50 years or so where people have looked at the statistics behind the correlation between the full moon or the phase of the moon and crime.
In my mining of the published literature, these are in peer-reviewed studies, there are about 24 or 25 studies that have looked specifically at criminal activity.
And I would say that out of those 24, 25 studies, three or four have shown a positive correlation between the full moon and any abnormal behavior.
The other ones have shown no correlation at all
We need to control for when did that full moon happen?
For example, did they happen on weekends?
Did they happen on holidays?
And things like that.
Also, did those studies happen on cloudy days where people could see the moon?
And a lot of those variables just are not controlled in most studies.
Those three or four studies that have shown a positive correlation have usually used just a small number of full moon cycles.
Cycles like over a year, that would give you approximately 12 full moons.
It's not as powerful as a study that would look over a longer period of time.
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