With thanks to Andrea Nicolotti, historian and friend. A manuscript from around 1375, some years before the Shroud resurfaced after being hidden for ‘about 34 years,’ or any of the episcopal or papal correspondence regarding the second series of expositions, has been discovered, which confirms the information that the Shroud was well known as a […]
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(but beginning with… USS Hugh M Farey If any of my readers also follow Dale Glover’s podcasts on the Shroud, you will know that he has come to refer to me almost exclusively as Ultimate Shroud Skeptic Hugh Farey. It has become one of his catch-phrases, like “peer reviewed secular scientific journal,” “world renowned expert,” […]
It’s August. It’s the Silly Season! Almost exactly a year ago, the internet exploded with the news that recent WAXS experiments had demonstrated that the Shroud was authentic, and the usual suspects bounced up and down with unrestrained glee. Of course, the excitement died down after a few weeks, and the mainstream media drifted off […]
A post or two ago, I suggested that people giving presentations of the authenticist view of the Shroud should avoid the use of Bayesian statistics, which although are actually quite useful predictive calculations based on prior factual knowledge, are often badly misrepresented as accurate derivations of probability based on nothing more than guesses. This was […]
In 1978, goes the legend, 40 of the world’s top scientists spent 120 continuous hours in Turin, studying the Shroud and taking thousands of photographs, which they worked on for years, leading to the publishing of dozens of peer reviewed papers in reputable scientific journals, all concluding that the image was not the work of […]
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been watching some recent Shroud videos on YouTube. Many are of pastors talking to their own, or other’s congregations, and are well-meaning but poorly focussed, and others are discussion blogs, in which notable Shroud presenters are interviewed by the hosts, mostly with the object of fortifying their, and their audiences’, convictions […]
I have a lot of respect for Giulio Fanti. He has been working at minute traces from the Shroud, some from Ray Rogers’s sticky tapes and some from the hooverings of Giovanni Riggi between the Shroud and its backing cloth, for many years, and has published his findings in numerous papers and a couple of […]
[IMPORTANT APPENDIX. Although Teddi Pappas was not singled out as particularly responsible for the ‘Facts’ about the Shroud mentioned on the ‘Sign From God’ website, she was among the Directors, and, as such, as I said below, “ought to be responsible for the content published under their names.” With this in mind, she has re-examined […]
In a recent podcast,1 Dale Glover asked Kenneth Stevenson (ex-STuRP) and Brian Donley Worrell to review my recent experiments. Both are quite prominent in the authenticist field, and might perhaps have presented valid challenges to them, but disappointingly neither of them appeared to have listened to the podcast in which I discussed my experiments or […]
I’ve been brought up short a couple of times recently in discovering areas of Shroud research that have been around for a while but are completely new to me. One of these is the website of Marco Corvaglia (https://www.marcocorvaglia.com/en), called ‘Miracles and Historical Criticism,’ whose main focus seems to be the Marian apparitions at Medjugorge, […]