Some moon myths have crossed centuries and still show up in conversations, headlines, even in serious studies that later get knocked down by bigger studies. Worth separating the ones with reasonable evidence from pure folklore.
Some moon myths have crossed centuries and still show up in conversations, headlines, even in serious studies that later get knocked down by bigger studies. Worth separating the ones with reasonable evidence from pure folklore.
The classic one. Midwives, nurses, on-call OBs say full moon nights bring more babies. The intuition feels strong because it stacks vivid cases, and memory logs the full-moon births better than the ones on some random rainy Wednesday.
The serious studies have been done. There's work covering more than half a million births across decades, cross-referencing date with lunar phase. Result: zero correlation. The birth rate stays basically flat across the lunar cycle.
The bias is on the perception side, not the sky.
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