Private Internet Debate Challenges Ray Rogers' Thermochimica Acta Paper

In an article recently published in Thermochimica Acta, Ray Rogers claims that certain results and observations from procedures that he performed on Shroud samples “prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the original cloth of the Shroud of Turin.” While I welcome the relative increase in publicity regarding the authenticity and study of the Shroud of Turin which his article generated, Rogers has not proved his claim. And, although his repair hypothesis is neither in conflict or inconsistent with the hypothesis developed by myself and Dr. Arthur Lind, or many other hypotheses, Mr. Rogers doesn’t seem to have presented any palpable or convincing evidence to support his above claim.