Bad Moon Rising: The sinister influence of the full moon on behavior has a venerable place in folklore and inconclusive support in scientific studies. Leaving humans aside for the moment, might there be a general tendency toward hostility under the full moon? Two studies coincidentally published in the same issue of the British Medical Journal, one from the UK and the other from Australia, reached contradictory conclusions in examining the relationship of severe animal bites and lunar phase. Beyond 2000