Talk:Martha McClintock

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I intend to add significantly to this page. It should not be deleted. It is referenced in other entries. Prof. McClintock is an important researcher and director of a major research department at the University of Chicago. Frederde 01:27, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Please add information to this page, but cf the page on the "McClintock effect" and look at the "criticism" section before you do.

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Replication of results
Was her her study ever replicated? Did anyone else get the same results?

Has anyone besides McClintock found that pheromones cause menstrual synchrony? What cycle lengths does it synchronize? How much synchronization occurs?

Does she (or her supporters) believe in it even in the face of no other supporting studies? If so, can we categorize her work as pseudoscience? --Uncle Ed (talk) 04:50, 7 June 2011 (UTC)


 * It has been proven and reproduced countless times testing (e.g.) Hamsters which have a menstrual cycle every 4 days. I think the real dispute is based in the fact that some people like to see the human race in distinction from the other animals or even primates. These people may find pride in our unparalleled ability for empathy and leave menstruation alone.


 * If science is working well, then some theories will be falsified and some phenomena will be found not to exist. So, it is not pseudoscience.  In the 1980s and 1990s, roughly half of the studies reported synchrony and the other half did not. In the early 2000s, it was shown that there were methodological and statistical flaws in the methods used that reported synchrony.  After these errors were correct, no one could find synchrony in humans or other mammals.  Thus, as of now, there is no empirical evidence that women or other female mammals synchronize their menstrual or estrous cycles. I am One of Many (talk) 16:51, 29 May 2014 (UTC)