Image of my own (beardless!) face, obtained in 2015 via contact imprinting technique, easily realizable in medieval times.
Pre-imprinting! (purely a modern photo as distinct from medieval -type imprint!)
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Conflicting definitions of “sindonology”
1. First, from en.wiktionary
“The study of the Shroud of Turin from a believing perspective”
2. Second, from www.dictionary.
“The scientific study of the Shroud of Turin”
Er, they can’t both be right! Indeed they could be said to be pulling in opposite directions!
So why hasn’t sindonology put its house in order by agreeing on a SINGLE DEFINITION?
Category Archives: medieval hoax
Might those be flecks of congealed wheat gluten one sees on the Turin Shroud? Evidence for unique one-off white flour imprinting?
Site banner: see how a simulated sweat imprint (my wet hand pressed down onto dark fabric) responds magnificently to 3D-rendering computer software (ImageJ) before and after tone-reversal (negative back to positive image). Remind you of anything? Like those supposedly “unique” … Continue reading
Posted in medieval hoax, new theory, Shroud of Turin, Turin Shroud
Tagged amino acid analysis, Bob Rucker, body image, diimide bleaching, flour-imprinting model, gluten flecks, liquid exudate, Maillard reaction, Mark Antonacci, melanoidins, Shroud Scope, Test The Shroud, TRAC Center Pasco
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Mickey Mouse science now in the crosshairs.
Postscript (correction: ‘prescript‘) added July 2019: You have arrived at a 2014 posting. That was the year in which this investigator finally abandoned the notion of the body image being made by direct scorch off a heated metal template … Continue reading
Posted in medieval forgery, medieval hoax, Shroud of Turin
Tagged artificial ageing, crosshairs, Mickey Mouse science, MSM, pseudo-science, wear-and-tear
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Time methinks to refresh this blog’s tagline (and hopefully improve its dismal Google ranking).
Postscript (correction: ‘prescript‘) added July 2019: You have arrived at a 2014 posting. That was the year in which this investigator finally abandoned the notion of the body image being made by direct scorch off a heated metal template … Continue reading
Posted in medieval forgery, medieval hoax, Shroud of Turin
Tagged 500 word summary, Google ranking, new tagline, Shroud of Turin
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Flow chart summarising a novel hypothesis for how the Shroud of Turin came into existence (and fooled generations of scholars)
Postscript (correction: ‘prescript‘) added July 2019: You have arrived at a 2014 posting. That was the year in which this investigator finally abandoned the notion of the body image being made by direct scorch off a heated metal template … Continue reading
Posted in medieval forgery, medieval hoax, Shroud of Turin
Tagged completed flow chart, novel hypothesis, Shroud of Turin
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Shroudie-Alert: Day 12: time now to write that long-overdue letter to the Royal Society…
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Posted in medieval forgery, medieval hoax, Shroud of Turin
Tagged blood-first dogma, colin berry, conduction, convection, Dr.John Jackson, fiziks, forgery, Paolo Di Lazzaro, pseudoscience, radiation, radiocarbon dating, Rageh Omaar, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, sciencebod, Silbury Hill, Sir Paul Nurse, Stonehenge, Telegraph Talking Energy blog, theo-fiziks, Vatican
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Could this be clinching evidence that the Shroud image is a contact scorch?
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
A question for Stephen Jones re his so-called “wounds” on the Shroud (not to be confused with bloodstains)
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Posted in medieval hoax, Shroud of Turin
Tagged bloodstains, Fanti, scourge marks, Shroud, spear wound, Stephen E.Jones, wounds
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One picture can be worth a thousand words …
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
How long before the grey scales fall from people’s eyes, and the Shroud image accepted as a thermal imprint (“scorch”)??
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged bas relief, death mask, grey scale, plaster cast, sand bed, scorch, Shroud of Turin, template, thermal imprint
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“Heating linen cannot give a superficial coloration” says Dr. Paolo Di Lazzaro. Oh yes it can – and here’s the evidence…
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Posted in medieval forgery, medieval hoax, Shroud of Turin
Tagged Dr.Paolo Di Lazzaro, oven, scorch, Shroud of Turin, superficial scorch, thermometer
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My answer to the steeped-in-mystique Turin Shroud - evolving gradually from some 10 years of science-based experimental modelling. 