European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine a photo for years there have been claims that a full Moon makes people behave by Gino Del Guercio United press International ask just about any emergency room shop owner or anyone else who deals regularly with the Public and  Tell you the full Moon drives people ask Nick an astronomer at Case Western Reserve and hell Tell you that a Load of and Hes got the facts to prove Sanduleak tested the commonly held belief that crime rates Rise when the Moon is and found the murder rate was not related in any Way to the phases of the he used a computer to compare the murders in Between 1971 and 1981 with the phase of the Moon when they took he chose to study murder statistics in Cleveland partly because the coroners office there keeps some of the most detailed records in the Sanduleak published his data in the Spring Issue of the sceptical a journal produced by a group of Well known scientists including Isaac Francis Stephen Jay Carl Sagan and Cleveland is not the Only place where the Moon does not seem to affect human and Sanduleak is not the Only scientist writing about the american journal of epidemiology published two reports that found no relation Between the full Moon and National crime Statis and a detailed analysis of All the scientific Litera published in the psychological found no conclusive evidence for the so called lunar not every scientist agrees with these find Arnold a Miami wrote a Book in 1978 called the lunar which supports the Moons influence on human Lieber proposed that the gravitational pull of the which causes the Rise and fall of the creates mental and emotional disturbances in the Moons gravitational pull is greatest when the Moon is which is Why the tides Are High at hat Lieber reasoned that because the human body is made does the affect human behaviour up almost entirely of it should be affected by the Moon just As the oceans he used murder statistics Between 1958 and 1970 from the same Cleveland Coro ners office and from Miami to support his since the Book was some scientists have criticized Lieber because they said his findings cannot be Lieber said that was because the scientists checked the phase of the Moon during the time of death instead of the time of Sanduleak used the time of some of the arguments in Liebers Book indicate he does not completely understand the physics involved in the interaction of the Sun and said Sandu for the gravitational pull of the Moon is strongest during two Points of its 30day Cycle when it is full and when it is Liebers calculations Only found an effect during the full a second complication is that the Sun plays an important role in the Rise and fall of the sometimes the Sun adds to the attraction caused by the at other times it subtracts from this is called the Lun Isolar if humans Are influenced by the gravitational attraction of extraterrestrial the strongest relationship be tween lunacy and the universe would be the Lun Isolar not the lunar Sanduleak checked the Lun Isolar effect As Well and could find no the third problem with Liebers said is the amount of influence the Moons Gravity on the human gravitational forces can raise the height of the oceans As much As 20 to 30 feet in some which testifies to the Power of these the gravitational attraction is dependent on the distance across the even in the largest of for tides Are almost in the human where the greatest distance across is no More than a couple of the effect is extremely it Doest make any physical the Force is vanishingly said yet none of this explains Why so Many people Are con Vinced the Moon plays a powerful role in human Sanduleak believes its All were constantly bombarded by the idea the Moon somehow sets up strange and bizarre he every movie we see uses a full Moon to indicate something evil is by people pick up these things Day in and Day it permeate All our he proposes another scenario that May also influence Peoples on a Day when crazy things Are someone gee its crazy around it must be a full no one bothers to Check whether it is or but when people think Back they remember there was a full at other times a lot of strange events May happen during a full this instantly verifies the but no one Ever remembers All the other full Moons when nothing out of the Ordinary Sanduleak believes if the Moon really had an society would prepare itself each time a full Moon a the police would add extra bartenders would Lay in extra Stock and surgeons would postpone he that just Doest june 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13