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In reply to the discussion: Shroud of Turin [View all]skepticscott
(13,029 posts)People have attempted to disregard his findings, or to dismiss them because they used utterly inappropriate techniques to try to reproduce them and failed. It's a plain and simple fact...there are red ochre pigment particles everywhere in the image areas and vermillion pigment particles everywhere in the blood areas and nowhere else on the shroud, and it's all in a tempera base. Where I come from, that's paint. Anyone whose claims for the shroud don't take that into account isn't worth taking seriously, nor are the claims of those who aim their big analytical instrument at it, fail to detect a tiny trace or iron amidst all of the cloth, and say there's nothing there.
Stripped of all of its religious baggage and the needfulness of its believers, the shroud is a fairly uncomplicated and uncontroversial artifact, and not any more difficult an analytical problem then those that are solved in university and museum laboratories every day. But as frequently happens, when religious beliefs are involved, facts are blithely ignored and special pleading is the word of the day.