The Dark side of Science: The 21 grams Experiment 1907 weighing the soul (Short Documentary)
Channel: Plainly Difficult
Date: 23/10/2021

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Ever wondered if the soul has a weight?

The 21 grams experiment was a flawed and unethical scientific study published in 1907 by Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts. 

MacDougall hypothesised that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. 

MacDougall attempted to measure the loss of mass of six patients at the moment of death. 

One of the six subjects lost three-quarters of an ounce (21.3 grams).

The results of the study have been used by multiple religions organisations as proof of the soul. 

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https://www.newdualism.org/papers/D.MacDougall/soul-substance.htm

https://ghostlyevidence.weebly.com/weight-of-the-soul.html

http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/Scotia/issue78/issue78a.html

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-man-who-tried-to-weigh-the-soul

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By James Heilman, MD - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49082178

By Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA - Firland Tuberculosis Hospital beds, 1927, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95463400