BEETHOVEN’s Moonlight Sonata stirs images of the dark recesses of the mind but there’s no science backing lunacy as being moon-driven.

There is no science to back the proposition that people act abnormally during full moons because of any lunar factor, according to a Discover Magazine piece by Kate Golembiewski.

Golembiewski said the full moon had been blamed for centuries for the “aberrant behavior” of people with pseudo-scientific explanations like the one by the Roman philosopher Pliny.

Pliny was said to have reasoned out that with the full moon causing more dew to form, the increased moisture in the brain cause people to go mad.

She cited a more recent explanation in the 1970s in which a book author sold the idea that since the “moon controls the tides, its gravitational pull affects the fluid sloshing around in human brains.”

“Even today, you might hear stories about classrooms of students misbehaving and people getting hurt in freak accidents around the full moon. But there’s one big problem with all these theories: they’re not true,” wrote Golembiewski.

The basis cited by the author is that statistically wise, there has never really been a marked uptick in the number of people going mad or exhibiting abnormal behaviors during full moons.

“For decades, researchers have pored over hospital records and police blotters, and time and time again, they’ve come up with the same answer — the full moon doesn’t seem to be associated with more strange things happening than usual.”

Scott Lilienfeld, a professor of psychology at Emory University, told Golembiewski that he’s “not aware of a single replicated finding in the literature that there’s a link between the full moon and odd behavior.”

Still, the magazine piece admitted that the moon does exercise some influence on Earth, “from the pull of the tides to the mating cycles of corals and glowworms.”