1320: The Moon | Skeptical Sunday

1320: The Moon | Skeptical Sunday

From The Jordan Harbinger Show by Jordan Harbinger

May 3, 2026 · 1h 6m · Episode 1320

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Jessica Wynn discusses the misconceptions surrounding the Moon and its influence on human behavior.

Blaming our problems on the Moon is lunacy! Jessica Wynn illuminates the dark side of what we understand about our celestial neighbor on Skeptical Sunday. Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of  The Jordan Harbinger Show  where  Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by writer and researcher  Jessica Wynn ! Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1320 On This Week's Skeptical Sunday: The Moon is history's greatest scapegoat — blamed for madness, bad moods, crime, and chaos for millennia. But it's not the Moon driving the weirdness. It's priming and confirmation bias working in tandem: one loads the mental gun, the other pulls the trigger. Tides are real and genuinely impressive — the Moon pulls Earth's oceans into two massive bulges simultaneously, creating predictable highs and lows that surfers, sailors, and scientists all rely on. But "humans are 60% water" does not extend the logic. Tidal forces operate at planetary scale, not cellular. Lunar myths have proven remarkably adaptive. We replaced "the…

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Host: Jordan Harbinger

Guest: Jessica Wynn

Topics covered

  • Moon
  • pseudoscience
  • confirmation bias
  • tides
  • misconceptions

Keywords

  • Moon
  • lunacy
  • pseudoscience
  • tides
  • confirmation bias

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