{"id":10671,"date":"2015-04-05T07:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=10671"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:34:10","slug":"prof-jean-luc-margot-says-to-stop-blaming-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=10671","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Jean-Luc Margot says to stop blaming the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Full_moon.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10673 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Full_moon-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Full_moon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Full_moon-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Full_moon-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Full_moon-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Full_moon-600x600.jpeg 600w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Full_moon.jpeg 1986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/nursingresearchonline\/Abstract\/publishahead\/No_Evidence_of_Purported_Lunar_Effect_on_Hospital.99876.aspx\">study published online<\/a> in the journal Nursing Research, Professor Jean-Luc Margot debunks the myth that the full Moon has an influence on the number of hospital admissions, births, and other human affairs.\u00a0 Margot explains that this belief stems from &#8220;confirmation bias&#8221; &#8211; where we take note of evidence that reinforces beliefs we already have and ignore evidence that conflicts with those beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/stop-blaming-the-moon-says-ucla-scientist\">full press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study published online in the journal Nursing Research, Professor Jean-Luc Margot debunks the myth that the full Moon has an influence on the number of hospital admissions, births, and other human affairs.\u00a0 Margot explains that this belief stems from &#8220;confirmation bias&#8221; &#8211; where we take note of evidence that reinforces beliefs we already &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=10671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prof. Jean-Luc Margot says to stop blaming the Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10674,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions\/10674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}