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In 1901,a doctor named Duncan MacMougall tried to prove the existence of the human soul. To do so he measured the weight of a person at the moment of death. He had 6 patients all of which experienced weight loss with the average loss of weight being 21grams.
A physician from haverhill, massachusetts. Macdougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. One of the six subjects lost three-fourth of an ounce(21.3 grams).
MacDougall's experiment has been rejected by the scientific community, and he has been accused of both flawed methods and outright fraud in obtaining his results. Noting that only one of the six patients measured supported the hypothesis, Karl Kruszelnicki has stated the experiment is a case of selective reporting, as MacDougall ignored the majority of the results. Physicist Robert L. Park has written that MacDougall's experiments "are not regarded today as having any scientific merit".Professor Richard Wiseman said that within the scientific community, the experiment is confined to a "large pile of scientific curiosities labelled 'almost certainly not true'".
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