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?
Tag Archives: pseudo-science
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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How a cunning 14th century visuo-semantic marketing ploy helped establish the ‘authenticity’ of the Shroud – and corrupted the French language into the bargain.
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
Hugh Farey, aficionado of linen fibre pyrolysis, has some more scorches for our delectation…
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 Shroud of Turin
Tagged badly scorched linen fibres, eyebrows, eyelashes, Great Scorch Debate, hair interferes witrh image capture, Hugh Farey, imaging of hair. keratin, incomplete penetration of scorch, Knight of the Holy Sepulcher, Paulette, pdf files, pseudo-science, The Shroud center of Colorado
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The Turin Shroud: but for the pseudo science it would have been dismissed long ago as a medieval fake
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
Are the Godfathers of Shroudology really so ignorant of elementary chemical principles?
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
Checklists – easy things to cut-and-paste – but is the inquisitor genuinely interested in one’s answers?
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 Shroud of Turin
Tagged cheap debating points, checklist, mumbo jumbo, polemics, pseudo-science, Shroud of Turin
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My ranking of spurious and/or unsupported claims made by Shroudologists
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 league table, piracy, pseudo-science, Shroud of Turin, spurious claims, trophy result, unsupported claims
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Yes, the elaborate blood stains on the Shroud were indeed a true work of art, Dan Porter…
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, chosen … Continue reading
It’s clever, some might say pretty, but is it science?
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 alan adler, bilirubin, blood, hemolysis, methaemoglobin, para-hemic hemoglobin, pseudo-science, science, Shroud Turin, STURP, trauma
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My answer to the steeped-in-mystique Turin Shroud - evolving gradually from some 10 years of science-based experimental modelling. 