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Modern science offers little support for the ancient belief in lunacy, or moon-engendered madness.
Despite anecdotal reports, epidemiological studies find no consistent correlation between any phase of the moon and any aberrant activity. Moreover, because of the distance of the moon, not to mention other heavenly bodies, and the infinitesimally small tidal effect it could have on an individual, scientists have found no biochemical reason that there should be such a relationship. In one epidemiological study, in 1985, Nicholas Sanduleak, then an astronomer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, did statistical research in response to a book by Dr. Arnold Lieber. He said he had found an excess of homicides in Miami and Cleveland at those times in a 10-year study. Scientists who independently re-analyzed the raw data from the Lieber study said that his conclusions were invalid.