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 :Why not treat it with the same dignified, standoffish, neutral attitude we give cold fusion and homeopathy? The phenomenon would be that women's cycles are (reportedly) found in synch (somewhat). The theory would be that it is a frequent, even typical occurence. 

 :I neither wish to make it seem more ""true"" by calling it a theory, nor to make it seem more ""false"" by calling it a purported phenomenon. Some lady scientist got a paper through peer review (while barely out of college, or still in it); but it's not for me as a writer to say she was correct or incorrect. We have a section on attempts to reproduce her results which is pretty clear.   "