Official 1988 C-14 report notes heterogeneity

Even in the official 1988 C-14 Nature report there is evidence the samples were not homogeneous. They identified cotton found on the shroud. Oxford thank P. H. South (Precision Process (Textiles) Ltd, Derby) for examining and identifying the cotton found on the shroud sample https://www.shroud.com/nature.htm They said pretreatment cleaning would be wasteful. The only thing …

John Brown confirms presence of cotton in C-14 sample

John Brown, principal research scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute, studied some threads from the Raes sample and found evidence of cotton threads with dye applied to it. Where the threads crossed, there was not any dye. Figure 1 shows a weft thread, R7, at an original magnification of 28X. The thread has a yellow-brown …

Joe Nickell

Here’s what you posted: Athetotheist wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:29 pm Don’t know how many of you are old enough to remember this but you may want to take a look, paying particular attention to 13:48-17:00. I assume you are referring to the “bas-relief” technique by Joe Nickell. Nickell and others contend the Shroud …

Robert Villarreal confirms chemical differences in sample

Robert Villarreal, a Los Alamos National Lab chemist, carried on the research on a sample Rogers had after Rogers passed away. From a purely scientific perspective, a number of excellent and important papers were presented. Most notable among these was the paper presented by Robert Villarreal of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The paper, titled, …

Ray Rogers confirmed C-14 sample was not homogeneous

After Marino and Benford presented their paper at the Sindone 2000 conference, Barrie Schwortz posted their paper on his shroud.com website. Ray Rogers, the lead chemist of STURP, read the paper and was mad at Schwortz for posting conspiracy theories, esp from amateurs. Rogers was one of the STURP scientists that accepted the 1988 C-14 …

Why I believe the church will not allow anymore tests on the shroud

DrNoGods wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 5:05 pm along with their (apparent) refusal to subsequently allow more testing to definitively answer the question as to when the shroud was made. Technically, I don’t think the church has explicitly stated no further C-14 testing will be allowed on the shroud. However, I believe the RCC will …