Posted: May 06, 2012 3:22 pm
DavidMcC wrote:Spearthrower wrote:So there's a perfectly normal article on the 'supermoon' visible at the moment.
It talks a bit about the phenomenon and perigrees and the like; has a quote from the Royal Astronomical Society... and then suddenly, for no apparent reason whatsoever, it devotes a paragraph to informing the reader that:Scientists have dismissed the idea the perigee could cause strange behaviour - like lycanthropy - or natural disasters.
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I really have no idea where that came from or who decided that was an appropriately useful factlet to round off the article!
Spearthrower, I would distinguish between the "lycanthropy" and the "natural disasters". At least the natural disaster issue can be dealt with scientifically, because it was not irrational, just wrong, because of the numbers, if you like. Lycanthropy, on the other hand, is just superstitious nonsense. Therefore, IMO, it was only the lycanthropy that had no place there.
To be clear, I was referring to the lycanthropy!
