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The Dark side of Science: The 21 grams Experiment 1907 weighing the soul (Short Documentary)
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2021Oct 23
Learn while you're at home with Plainly Difficult! 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. Want to become a channel member?   / @plainlydifficult   Paypal Donate Link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Help the Channel Grow Like, Comment & Subscribe! Subscribe Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb0M... Equipment used in this video: Rode NTG3, Audient ID4, MacBook Pro 16, Hitfilm, Garage Band Check out My Twitter:   / plainly_d   Check out these other great channels:    / dominotitanic20      / cynicalc.  .    / jabzyjoe      / @qxir   Sources: https://www.newdualism.org/papers/D.M... https://ghostlyevidence.weebly.com/we... http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ant... https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind... http://ia800208.us.archive.org/5/item... https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i... By James Heilman, MD - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA - Firland Tuberculosis Hospital beds, 1927, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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