The Shroud of Turin is Fake! || Radiometric dating & invisible patches

We're doing an in-depth examination of the evidence that the Shroud of Turin dates to the medieval period and is not the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. In this first episode, we're covering the radiometric dating & the "invisible patch" hypothesis. Next episode we'll be looking at how the image was made, the historical evidence, and a bunch of other claims.

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Thanks to Age of Rocks (https://twitter.com/ageofrocks) for his input on the radiometric dating!

Sources cited in this episode:

Bella, Marco, et al. “Comments on the analysis interpretation by Rogers and Latendresse regarding samples coming from the Shroud of Turin.” Thermochimica Acta, 2016 (not published), http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.tca.2016.03.014.

Bella, Marco, et al. “There is no mass spectrometry evidence that the C14 sample from the Shroud of Turin comes from a "medieval invisible mending."” Thermochimica Acta, no. 617, 2015, pp. 169-171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2015.08.002.

Casabianca, Tristan, et al. “Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud: New Evidence from Raw Data.” Archaeometry, 2019, doi: 10.1111/arcm.12467.

Damon, P. E., et al. “Radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin.” Nature, vol. 337, no. 16, 1989, pp. 611-615.

Di Lazzaro, Paolo, et al. “Statistical and Proactive Analysis of an Inter- Laboratory Comparison: The Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin.” Entropy, vol. 22, no. 926, 2020, doi:10.3390/e22090926.

Freer-Waters, Rachel, and Timothy Jull. “INVESTIGATING A DATED PIECE OF THE SHROUD OF TURIN.” Radiocarbon, vol. 52, no. 4, 2010, pp. 1521-1527, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033822200056277.

Latendresse, Mario. “Comments on the mass spectrometry analysis of a sample of the Shroud of Turin by Bella et al.” Thermochimica Acta, no. 624, 2016, pp. 55-58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2015.11.021.

Riani, Marco, et al. “Regression analysis with partially labelled regressors: carbon dating of the Shroud of Turin.” Statistics and Computing, vol. 23, 2012, pp. 551-561, DOI 10.1007/s11222-012-9329-5.

Rogers, Raymond. “Studies on the radiocarbon sample from the shroud of turin.” Thermochimica Acta, no. 425, 2005, pp. 189-194, doi:10.1016/j.tca.2004.09.029.

Walsh, Bryan, and Larry Schwalbe. “An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, no. 29, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102015.