Re: the human soul weighs exactly 3/4rs of an ounce or exactly 21.2621423 grams....scotch science is wonderful....

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From: abelard
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:04:42 -0000, "DVH" <dvh@vhvhvhvh.com> wrote:

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>"abelard" <abelard3@abelard.org> wrote in message 
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>> http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp
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>> Enter Dr. Duncan MacDougall of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The doctor
>> postulated the soul was material
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>Yet another triumph for Scottish rationalism.

can you trust scotch measure though?

i prefer galton's statistical approach!
http://www.abelard.org/galton/galton.htm

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