The Effects of Souls on Weight Loss

Jimmy Cruth: Duncan McDougall deserves credit for pioneering research on the soul. He says it may be possible to detect death through its departure of the soul at its effects, like gravity. But there are mechanisms that would explain temporary weight gain, and these might be offset by an even greater effect such as your soul psychokinetically pulling matter out of your body when you die. "We're dealing only with a handful of experiments by a handful of researchers," he says.