The Gauquelin Mars Effect
A prominent sceptics' organisation ran its own test in the late 1970s and reported a negative result — but one of the organisation's own founders later alleged in print that the committee had suppressed data that actually confirmed the effect. Both sides of that internal dispute still cite it decades later.
Michel Gauquelin's original 1955 study; Dennis Rawlins's 1981 'sTARBABY' allegation against CSICOP
A statistical claim, published in 1955, that the position of Mars at birth correlates with becoming an eminent athlete.
