Over the long weekend of 30 July – 3 August, the Shroud Educational Endeavors Corporation presented an extremely comprehensive survey of the current state of Shroud research to date at the Augustine Institute, St Louis, Missouri, “drawing more than 425 attendees and featuring 85 presentations from 49 global experts representing 10 countries,”1 presenting in 3 […]
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I had been looking forward to this. Jack Markwardt is usually as thorough a researcher as one could wish to find, and his history of the Shroud before Lirey has been comprehensive and meticulously researched. Needless to say, I have been reviewing his presentations with equal rigour, and do not come to the same conclusions, […]
On 5 September 2025 Jack Markwardt and I met head to head on one of Dale Glover’s podcasts,1 on the significance of the re-discovery of that interesting passage in one of Nicole Oresme’s treatises, concerning the fraudulent clerics of Lirey. The tenor of the podcast was that I thought the passage was confirmation of Pierre […]
In a well-structured assessment of the Scientific Method, Otangelo Grasso (ably assisted by ChatGPT or one of its peers) has analysed my experiments with yellow ochre tempera, and the words of the title above occur no less than fifteen times in his review. Unfortunately, as we shall see, the review is really only a well […]
“Until someone replicates an artefact, with all of its characteristics,then however ardently they may claim it to be by the hand of man,their very incompetence demonstrates the likelihood that it is the work of God.” Various attempts have been made to reproduce the method by which the Shroud image was made, in the face of […]
A Review of‘A New Document on the Appearance of the Shroud of Turin from Nicole Oresme: Fighting False Relics and False Rumours in the 14th Century,’by Nicolas Sarzeaud, published in the Journal of Medieval History, 28 August 2025 I love a pithy title, don’t you? A lot of historical research is pretty unrewarding. You set […]
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 […]
(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 […]