"News and Editorial," Shroud of Turin News, February 2020

Shroud of Turin News - February 2020
© Stephen E. Jones[1]

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This is the February 2020 issue of my Shroud of Turin News. I have listed below linked news article(s) about the Shroud in February as a service to readers, without necessarily endorsing any of them. My comments (if any) are bold in square brackets. See the January 2020 issue on, "I have decided to trial a cut-down version with less Editorial."

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News:
There was only one Shroud news article worth mentioning in February 2020, that I am aware of, and it is on carbon 14 but says very little about the Shroud:

• "Murder! Espionage! Cosmic Rays! The History of Carbon-14 Is Way More Thrilling Than You Think," Popular Mechanics, 25 February 2020, Jennifer Leman ... Eighty years ago, the discovery of one small isotope helped us unravel the mysteries of the past ... "The general rule

[Above (enlarge): An Archaeologist's Dream Date ... The shroud of Turin. The link to this photo is, "

full-length-negatives-of-the-shroud-of-turin ...jpg." These full length, front and back, negative photographs of the Shroud in the article alone show that the 1260-1390 = 1325±65 radiocarbon date of the Shroud must be wrong! This exemplifies the "strong delusion" (2Thess 2:11) effect of scientific naturalism (`nature is all there is - there is no supernatural') so that this science journalist Jennifer Leman and her readers don't ask themselves the `Emperor has no clothes' question: "how did a forger-artist in the 13th-14th century depict the man on the Shroud as a photographic negative when photographic negativity was not known until the 1820s, ~500 years later? [see Negative #19]]

is that if you want to measure a process with a radioactive clock, the half life [of the isotope] has to be sort of around the right time scale of what you're measuring," says Thiemens. "When they wanted to verify if the Shroud of Turin was real or not, carbon-14 was perfect." ... Unless a hacker, allegedly Arizona laborat-ory's Timothy W. Linick (1946–June 4, 1989) [Right (enlarge) [ 22Feb16]], aided by German hacker Karl Koch (1965-c. 23 May 1989), inserted his program between the fully computerised AMS radio-carbon dating process at the three laboratories, Arizona, Zurich and Oxford, and its bogus results were displayed on their AMS computer terminal screens. [see 23Jul15]

Editorial
Posts: In February I blogged 5 new posts (latest uppermost): "Names of the Shroud: The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Sheet of Jesus! #9" - 26th; "News and Editorial," Shroud of Turin News, December 2019" - 21st; "My hacker theory: guarded support from Ian Wilson but censored by the BSTS' David Rolfe!" - 14th; "Date index 2020: The Shroud of Turin blog" - 14th; "What is the Shroud of Turin?: The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Sheet of Jesus! #8 - 12th

Pageviews: At midnight on 29 February 2020, Google Analytics [Below (enlarge)] gave this blog's "Pageviews all time history" as 1,149,073:

This compares with 1,022,356 at the same time in February 2019. That is 126,717 pageviews over the 12 months, or an average of ~346 pageviews per day.

Google Analytics also gave the most viewed posts for February (highest uppermost) as: "The Shroud of Turin is the Burial Sheet of Jesus!" Dec 8, 2009 - 141;"The Shroud of Turin: 2.6. The other marks (2): Poker holes," Mar 6, 2013 - 76; "Chronology of the Turin Shroud: AD 30 to the present: 1st century and Index" Jul 24, 2016 - 67; "Re: Shroud blood ... types as AB ... aged blood always types as AB, so the significance of this ... is unclear" Mar 18, 2011 - 66; "Problems of the Turin Shroud forgery theory: Index A-F" Jan 20, 2016 - 65.

Notes:
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Posted: 10 March 2020. Updated: 16 April 2020.