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This is the "Editorial and Contents," part #1 of the January 2017 issue of my Shroud of Turin News. Following this editorial, I will add excerpts from Shroud-related January 2017 news articles (if any) in separate posts, linked back to this post, with the articles' words in bold to distinguish them from mine. Click on a link below to go to that article. Articles not yet linked are planned to be commented on in this issue.
Contents:
Editorial
Rex Morgan's Shroud News: My scanning and word-
processing of issues of Rex Morgan's Shroud News, provided by Ian Wilson, and emailing them to Barrie Schwortz (1946-2024), for him to convert to PDFs and add to his online Shroud News archive, continued in January up to issue #68, December 1991 [Right (enlarge)]. Issues in that archive are now up to #66, August 1991.
Posts: In January I blogged only 4 new posts (latest uppermost): "Chronology of the Turin Shroud: Seventh century," "June 2007 & Index: Steps in the development of my radiocarbon dating of the Turin Shroud hacker theory #1," "The date of Ian Wilson's tetradiplon = `doubled in four' Shroud experiment," and "Editorial and Contents," Shroud of Turin News, December 2016."
Updates to my posts in the background in January included: inserting "Turin Shroud" in the title of each of my "Problems of the forgery theory" posts, so they now are: "Problems of the Turin Shroud forgery theory: Index A-F," "G-M," "N-R" and "S-Z." I did this because I belatedly realised that without "Turin Shroud" in their titles, search engines might not readily list them as being about the Shroud.
Comments: While not a comment, in January I received an email request for my comment on a complex Shroud-related matter. I replied:
"Sorry but I don't have the time to answer private questions about the Shroud. I am the full-time carer of my wife who has MS [Multiple Sclerosis] and is on her way to becoming a quadriplegic. After I have done her personal care, driving her to doctors' appointments, etc, and both the `woman's work' and the `man's work' around the home, it takes all my limited spare time left to research and write my blog [And scan, word-process and proof-read ~60 pages of Shroud News each month]. So those of you who presumably have a lot more time than me, please do your own Shroud research!"I am sharing this so that other readers may know why I cannot answer their private questions about the Shroud. In fact a few days after that I received an email from another person who asked, if I "might have the time to add some perspective to a couple of questions I have?" I responded by quoting the above. I can still respond to public comments under my posts, but only those which comply with my stated policies:
"MY POLICIES. Comments are moderated. Those I consider off-topic, offensive or sub-standard will not appear. Except that comments under my latest post can be on any one Shroud-related topic. To avoid time-wasting debate I normally allow only one comment per individual under each one of my posts."
My radiocarbon dating hacker theory: As can be seen above, in January I blogged one post about my hacker theory, being part #1 of a new series, "Steps in the development of my radiocarbon dating of the Turin Shroud hacker theory." In that series, as the subject indicates, I will set out the steps in the progressive development of my radiocarbon dating hacker theory. The title is long-winded so that search engines will more readily list my posts in that series as being about the hacking of the 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud.
Pageviews: At midnight on 31 January, Google Analytics [below (enlarge)]
gave this blog's "Pageviews all time history" as 685,705 and "Pageviews last month" as 14,555. This compares with 499,143 (up 186,562 or 37.4%) and 12,030 respectively in my January 2016 Editorial (albeit as at 12 February 2016). It also gave the most viewed posts for the month (highest uppermost) as: "Did you ask radiocarbon dating experts their opinion on this?," Nov 3, 2016 - 224; "Medieval photography: Nicholas Allen," Aug 7, 2016 - 224; "My radiocarbon dating hacker theory mentioned in Joe Marino's `The Politics of Radiocarbon Dating'!," Oct 24, 2016 - 220; "Chronology of the Turin Shroud: Second century," Aug 5, 2016 - 208; and "`Editorial and Contents,' Shroud of Turin News, October 2016," Nov 2, 2016 - 199.
Notes:
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Posted 4 February 2017. Updated 18 June 2025.
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