Herb Schaltegger wrote:
In article ,
(AA Institute) wrote:

Especially when one of the objects is massive
enough to cause tides on the other object from 225,000 miles away, as
well as influence menstrual

You don't think the woman's cycle could be a coincidence?

Um, not really. The lunar cycle affects a great deal of human behavior.

See, e.g.,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...PubMed&dbFrom=
PubMed&from_uid=14664724

This is just nonsense. There is no phase relationship
between the lunar cycle and menstruation. If there were
any causal relationship it would follow some pattern rather
than being completely non-correlated. Also, the period of
a women's menstrual cycle is not even remotely the same as
that of the lunar cycle. The average is off by at least a
day (for either synodic or sidereal period), not to mention
the fact that the menstrual cycle can vary by several days.
Additionally, there is much wider variation in menstrual
cycles across different species, if something like the
moon were effecting the process there wouldn't be such high
variation.

I can't believe I'm even responding to something so inane.