Does the Full Moon Make People Crazy?

Luna was the wife of Zeus, sister of Helios the sun, and the mother of 50 children. Arguably the first lunatic. A word which, by the way, has its roots in a belief that the Moon made people mad.

Even modern studies have managed to associate full Moons with everything from insanity to traffic accidents. But the connections have been thin. Some studies have found weak associations to increased aggression, unintentional poisonings and absenteeism. But other studies have contradicted these findings. Now that's enough to make you crazy!

Perhaps the most well-founded human relationship to the lunar cycle is the menstrual cycle of many women (at least among those who choose to continue having them these days).

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