It’s widely known that full moons affect people. Oh, people act differently, there are more emergency visits, and at worst, you turn in to a warewolf.
Honestly, how can anyone believe this? The moon is still the moon, regardless of how it’s illuminated, it’s still the same moon.
Yet I still hear perfectly normal people swear that the full moon is an actual thing that causes people to behave differently. Why would any rational person believe this?
Does a warewolf live in a warehouse?
They live in a werehouse, which is a man who turns into a house during the full moon.
Well Cecil agrees with you.
More seriously, it’s almost certainly true that there is no “full moon effect” in that sense. But that conclusion is valid only after analyzing the evidence. We shouldn’t just dismiss it as obvious nonsense. Galileo famously similarly dismissed the idea that the tides were caused by the moon, since what possible effect could a remote body in the sky have on the ocean? (He thought tides were caused by the oceans sloshing around due to irregularities in the Earth’s motion.) The level of moonlight could conceivably have some effect on human behavior – Seasonal Affective Disorder is a real condition (probably) caused by lower light levels in winter. And I can testify from horrific personal experience that Sundowning is a real condition in dementia patients that seems to be related to light levels.
Warewolf? Thare wolf!
Don’t the moon phases affect the tides and such? Seems possible that they might effect other things, too.
Werewolf. My mistake.
Carry on.
Well, it does cause *some *behavioral differences. During a full moon, I’m much more likely to point at the sky and say, “Check out that full moon!” for example.
Less facetiously, a full moon on a clear night is going to provide more illumination, which suggests that there will be more people out and active on nights where there is a full moon, which means more opportunities for people to have accidents or engage in mischief than on nights with no visible moon.
The phase of the moon affects the tides in an odd way - the moon’s tides are the same regardless of phase, but the phase of the moon is related to the position of the sun relative to the moon. Therefore the phase of the moon is related to whether the solar tides will add to the lunar tides or cancel them out.
This would seem to make sense. But the world is not organised around what seems to make sense, so we need to look at the evidense, which in this case is lacking.
When you don’t have electric lights, a full moon is a great way to light your way at night. That means more people will be out and about during the full moon phases, leading to more activity, both positive or negative. A lot of otherwise hidden stuff can happen more frequently when you can see what you’re doing, but the drawback is others can also see what you’re doing. Crazy behaviour happens more often during the full moon because everybody is outdoors for longer, and you can see them more easily.
Then there’s the confirmation bias. The full moon phases ought to be at most three nights, but it’s easily fudged to five, and at a pinch seven. That’s a quarter of the month. 25% of the time when something unusual happens you can consciously attribute to the full moon, and 75% can be unconsciously dismissed as an anomaly.
To repeat, this all sounds very plausible, but is an explanation for something that does not, in fact, exist. Lunar Effect meta analysis
I’m explaining where the myth originates, not why it’s true. Because it’s not true.
I was responsible for an emergency department for many years. I did an informal study comparing number and acuity of visits when the moon was full compared to average.
No difference. Unless you left the road and ventured on to the moors.
In which case you are phrasing it badly.
No it doesn’t, and it’s not more noticeable either.
Obviously, they aren’t now. with street lighting everywhere.
Your reading comprehension is not my responsibility.
The full moon affects my life in two main ways:
Is it at all feasible to shine a strong light onto the moon so it always appears full and this waffling will end? 
Similar, I used to work as computer support and programmer for a county 911 agency. I was curious so I pulled our case statistics for something like a full year to see if the numbers were higher during full moons. Not a bit. It was a little bit disappointing, I admit.
Some interesting things that I did see: there are more house fires when it’s raining, no idea why. And people definitely get drunk and fight more (so more domestic disputes) on Friday and Saturday nights.