Meryl Horne

And overall, a review of these studies said that there's no increase in how busy emergency departments are during a full moon.

No.

Yeah, I asked her because she actually still works in an ER.

Now, when you hear people mention this idea that, oh, it's a full moon tonight, get ready, do you say anything?

Or not well-actually Wendy's.

Yeah.

Some of us are well-actually Wendy's.

And Wendy had this really lovely theory as to, like, why this idea sticks around the ER despite the lack of evidence.

Okay, well, so, yeah, it doesn't seem like the full moon makes ERs busier.

By the way, I also looked into this idea that there's more crime on a full moon.

A couple studies looked at that and did not see anything there either.

Okay.

Okay.

But, Wendy, this does not put the kibosh on the whole idea that the moon can affect our behavior.

Actually, after doing all of this research, I am more of a true believer.

Okay, so there's this one super interesting study that I want to tell you about.

Okay.

All right, so it was done by Professor Horacio de la Iglesia at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Have you ever howled at the moon?

That's true.