[espiex]

Originally Posted by shakeNbake06

well it says that he eliminated many explanations for the observed results as he could; like the amount of water evaporation of moisture like sweat. He had the ill patients lie on the scale and immediately at their death there was a sudden loss of weight.

It also says

What to make of all this? MacDougall's results were flawed because the methodology used to harvest them was suspect, the sample size far too small, and the ability to measure changes in weight imprecise. For this reason, credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul as 21 grams. His postulations on this topic are a curiousity, but nothing more.