Obviously it does not, as I said. On the other point, correlation is still more than nothing.
The only means we have to determine causation is through correlation, is this not correct?
No it is not correct, other possible causes can be investigated.
I am not implying that moonlight has no biological effect on quite a number of species, but that does not signify any damaging effects.
Also the Moon may influence sleep, study finds, but this is not any damaging effects of moonlight.
Many effects simply relate to more light at night and of course old superstitions seem to die hard.
Lack of sleep is not damaging? Pretty sure that leads to madness, especially with individuals prone to schizophrenia.
OK, maybe for
pedantics like yourself I should have said,
"but this is not any damaging effects of moonlight per se, but simply due to the brighter illumination."
There is, however, a limited amount of detail one can point in a quick post.
But, you still do not get the point.
The lack of sleep is not due to any
special property of "the moon's rays", nor to any "NS particles" but simply to the brighter illumination.
I guess that a superstitious person can't be cured, any more than one over-prone to believing in conspiracies - and flat-earthers seem prone to both.
Though psychotherapy might help in both cases.
By , he way it would appear that
most of those ancient Chinese believed the moonlight was simply reflected sunlight and that the sun really rose and set behind the horizon.
Sure there were some Chinese scholars who believed that the celestial bodies rotated in a plane above the flat earth and "Taoist Scholars that performed this experiment far before Eratosthenes disagree".
In fact, those "Taoist Scholars" and the other Chinese made far more precise measurements than the Greeks did.
What I find, however, is that the "Taoist Scholars' " model with the sun, moon and stars circling above was soon abandoned simply because it did not explain sunrises and sunsets,
just as your flat earth model cannot.
As I keep saying all along, the apparent motion of the sun disproves the
current flat earth model.