Since it is established that vanillin decreases with age, strength with age and so on, it is worthwhile for fanti to try. His book is far more detailed than papers.
The vanillin is how we know it was repaired: the repair linen still has vanillin. The old linen does not.
Fanti uses controls , so the error bands are interesting. Since it is clear that RC has problems with cloth,( and I don’t just mean from the shroud) alternatives are needed.
The more the idea is used, the more it can be trusted.
There has to be a first time for everything including AMS!
For the present fanti is in the interesting evidence category, it is not definitive, needs weighing with others. Needs to be used more.
But that’s all RC is according to professionals like Meacham, It makes mistakes too often to be other than one more piece of evidence, and it needs caution on sample profiling the daters did not do. The public were misled on the certainty
I have no idea how senior you are , opdrey, or how many scientists you run. I have had many highly qualified employees in the past,
Tell me , would you have sacked an employee for this, and apologised to the journal? Ie cheating?
I am genuinely curious. How can they ever be trusted again?
I would - without hesitation.
Do you agree that tite and Halls should have been sacked for a conspiracy to cheat?
" showed that some of the original Shroud date measurements reported by the three laboratories to the British Museum were modified from their original ‘raw’
laboratory values and transformed into their published form using an
unstated methodology"
May I ask, do you prefer the Fanti age? That's the age that was arrived at that uses non-standard techniques with almost no track record?
I'm genuinely curious.
THANK YOU FOR FINALLY PROVIDING AN ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC CITATION!!!!!
I'm serious! Thanks! This is a first for you. I'm really glad you could do it! I will definitely look at this!
Thanks again!