As usual the popular news media hyperventilate about wild claims made in a book rather than in a recognized peer-reviewed scientific journal. The truth is that the few fibers on which these tests were conducted have not been authenticated by the church authorities, and the tests used have never been used or validated by any scientist for archeological dating purposes. Here is a translated statement in regards to the former by Mgr. Cesare Nosiglia, the Archbishop of Turin and custodian of the shroud:
QUOTE No serious value of the results can be attributed to any of the research on the Shroud reported in the book...Since there is no degree of safety on the authenticity of the materials on which these experiments were carried out to the Shroud cloth the owners and custodians cannot recognize any serious value to the results of these alleged experiments. UNQUOTE .......Mgr. Cesare Nosiglia, the Archbishop of Turin and custodian of the shroud (Translated from the following Vatican Insider Italian website by Barrie M. Schwortz, President of Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc: http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/inchieste-ed-interviste/dettaglio-articolo/articolo/sindone-23653/) Cheers, Santosh ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> > > Read more: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2300503/Turin-Shroud-medieval-fake-dates-Christs-lifetime-say-scientists.html#ixzz2OsFbRQGW > > Follow us: @MailOnline on > Twitter<http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline> > | DailyMail on > Facebook<http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail> >
