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John: often what we think we know it is not so. i looked up my years of consumer reporting and i wrote a book about it but now since then i have researchers here of this also show so the myths keep coming for example, the full moon makes people crazy. people who work in emergency rooms say we have more accidents and action when i have a full moon. cops still be with the beautiful people are crazier but the truth is of the past 20 years dozens of studies have searched for the effect yes for the tides but no for the people. why do so many people believe that? because our memory plays tricks anr ...

Often what we think we know is not so. that's what i learned in my years of consumer reporting. i wrote that book about it. now, since then i've got six crack researchers here on the stossel show so the myths keep coming. for example, a full moon makes people crazy. lots of americans believe that. people working in hospital emergency rooms say oh, yeah, we got more accidents, more action the night of a full moon. cops tell me when the moon is full, people are crazier. the truth, over the past 20 years dozens of studies have searched for a full moon effect but have found none. no effect on peop...

Time as we are seeing right now with over 8 percent unemployment. those folks who are out of work to work more incidents of illness and there are rules and regulations costly to our economy and add very little benefit to the environ pment. >> after years of consumer reporting i came around to the same conclusion but i assume when you say this to most people they say what are you talking about? the epa it makes america cleaner and that has to be good for our health. >> if you take a look at where we used to be the air is cleaner water is cleaner all of those things are true. >> now we are at a ...

Ofe tim wover 8% unemployment, those folk who is are out of work but want to go to work -- of illness, hospitalizations and premature death because of the incredible number of rules and regulations that are costly to our economy and add very little benefit to the environment. >> after years of consumer reporting, i came around to the same conclusion. but i assume when you say this to most people, they say, what are you talking any? the epa makes the world cleaner, makes america cleaner and that has to be good for our health. the tangential relation to unemployment. what? >> if you look, the ai...

When people lose their jobs and are out of work for long periods of time wer 8% unemployment, those folk who is are out of work but want to go to work -- of illness, hospitalizations and premature death because of the incredible number of rules and regulations that are costly to our economy and add very little benefit to the environment. >> after years of consumer reporting, i came around to the same conclusion. but i assume when you say this to most people, they say, what are you talking any? the epa makes the world cleaner, makes america cleaner and that has to be good for our health. the ta...