Who is Joe Nickell?

Shroud of Turin Carbon 14 Madness

Strange Images on the Turin Shroud

The Shroud's Journey: Edessa to Turin

Second Face on The Shroud of Turin

 

Shroud of Turin Skeptical Spectacle

JOE NICKELL, The skeptical inquirer and the Shroud of Turin

 

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Joe Nickell's article "Claims of Invalid “Shroud” Radiocarbon Date Cut from Whole Cloth"  in Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

Contrast With

Ray Rogers' Reaction to Joe Nickell Article in a Letter to the Editor of Skeptical Inquirer.

Thermochimica Acta   - a peer-reviewed scientific journal. (Volume 425 Issue 1-2, pages 189-194, by Raymond N. Rogers, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California)  -  The article is available on Elsevier BV's ScienceDirect® online information site.  

Confirmation of Rogers Findings:  Microscopical Investigation of Selected Raes Threads from the Shroud of Turin by John L. Brown, retired Principal Research Scientist  at the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Energy and Materials Sciences Laboratory. This is a 2005 independent confirmation that the carbon 14 dating was flawed.

ALSO Contrast With News Accounts

Commentary from Nature    (by Philip Ball, January 28, 2005)

Associated Press   ( ABC News )

BBC Article

Christianity Today Magazine

National Geographic News

Discovery Channel Article

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