In article ,
"Christopher M. Jones" wrote:

Herb Schaltegger wrote:

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.


Actually, there is a statistical correlation - it just isn't perfect.
Read the article abstracts if not the articles themselves. There is
about a 30% correlation between lunar phase and menstruation, much
higher than can be explained by other factors.

And it's not just menstruation. Ask anyone who works in a crisis
monitoring center, an ER or a birthing center at a decent-sized hospital
how the phases of the moon affect their work.

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

The obsolete term for acting irrationally is "lunacy' after all. Just
because you don't believe in something proven statistically doesn't make
it inane. It might, however, make you closed-minded.

--
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
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