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[Opinion] What? No Full Moon Lunacy?

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Durward

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"The "full moon effect" is a persistent cultural myth—often termed the "lunar lunacy effect"—rather than a measurable scientific phenomenon, with decades of studies consistently finding no evidence of increased human activity, psychological disturbances, or paranormal effects during full moons. Research has debunked the notion that lunar cycles trigger spikes in criminal activity, psychiatric admissions, or trauma center visits."

This must be absolutely false and is unbelievable to me.

A mother of a friend I grew up with worked at an insane asylum (psychiatric hospital to all the young people) before they were so rudely disbanded in America. She dreaded working full moons because the patients were out of control during a stretch leading up to, during, and after the full moon.

I worked armed security for many years, and I experienced the full moon troubles on the job. Police in GB and in many other places used to increase the number of officers on duty to deal with the 'lunatics' that come out when the moon is full.

We hear this often, yet it is debunked as “illusory correlation”—the perception of an association that does not in fact exist.

Of course I have another theory...

Number one, we have an awful lot of people with astounding Psi abilities that disagree with the findings, AND can feel the difference in intuition changes alone.

Number two, we are dealing with polarized light from the moon, which I believe the science study conveniently skipped over. Where Polarized Light Therapy (PLT) is used in clinical settings to treat skin ulcers, burns, and musculoskeletal injuries by accelerating healing, with the light penetrating up to 5 cm. This alone should be causing some kind of reactions in people that can be seen or measured if they would pull the stick out.

Number three, if enough people believe it is causing an effect, then more people would actually be running to the emergency room and more crime would be happening, just out of placebo or belief alone. When you can't find those connections, something is wrong with your data.

If we take the lunar tides as an example, we can see that the moon does have influence over large bodies of water and pulls against gravity itself, enough to make tides.

The science claim is that the human being is too small to be included in the gravitational influence, in comparison to large oceans.

What do you think?
 

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Or maybe number four, Astrology is True Knowledge, and "elite" will always suppress it and pretend it to be "superstitions" and "illusory correlations" because "elite" wants to have monopoly on that knowledge and have upper hand with its help.
 
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