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Wendy Zukerman

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Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

blood coming out of our vaginas.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Yes.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Describing a period-based study as a wild study is immediately making me think of just a scientist throwing around dirty tampons for some reason.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Do you know, Meryl, I'm the exact opposite, that I will ovulate around a full moon.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

And get my period, I guess, in a new moon.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

But I just assumed it was because I'm a pretty regular cycle.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

And that's just what a month is, you know, around 28 days or whatever.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Yeah, why are our cycles the same as the cycles of the moon?

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Okay, yeah.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

So what did she find?

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Oh!

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Okay.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Uh-huh.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

That classic thing where you study something in a few people, get a very exciting result, and then you study it in more and more people and realize it's not generalizable.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

We've seen this countless times before.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Charlotte and I are the anecdote in the room that gets the headlines.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Okay.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Okay.

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

You know, because obviously we couldn't... Because it's so rare?

Science Vs
The Full Moon: Is It Messing With Us?

Yeah, we couldn't all be witches, you know.