work must continue on understanding the 1988 Carbon 14 test results. We can complain all we want about how the actual tests deviated from the original protocols, or how the statistical analyses of the

tabby) weave in wool. Carbon-14 dating by Douglas Donahue of Arizona University (who again stands by his erroneous date for the Holy Shroud) gives a date for the first half of the 1st century AD. So

Since the announcement of the C14 results in October 1988, this Newsletter has consistently distanced itself from allegations that the carbon dating findings were in any way 'rigged'. No change to this

to conclude in the absence of organic compounds (carbon containing)40. -It is the air, therefore the non-color, which determines the color visible to the observer according to the incidence and

Episode 1. On the 13th October 1988, Dr. Michael Tite reported that the Turin Shroud's dates as measured by the radiocarbon method were "1260 to 1390(!)', and that the odds were astronomical against

Arguing against the accuracy of the carbon dating findings he puts forward a variety of evidence indicating that the Shroud dates from the first century AD, inclusive of the actual remains of a first

The current level of uncertainty for the 1988 radiocarbon dating prohibits us from giving it undue weight: radiocarbon testing cannot deliver a final verdict for science and cannot erase all other

Introduction Shroud scholars were stunned in 1988 when a medieval date of origin was assigned to the Shroud by three laboratories performing Carbon 14 dating analysis on a small segment of cloth

the radiocarbon dating test of 1988. When it was announced that the radiocarbon testing indicated the origin of the Shroud between 1260 and 1390, the world was in shock. Skeptics felt triumphant;

30 April 1988 Prof.Luigi Gonella, Commissione scientifica per gli examini sulla S.Sindone, C. Vittorio Emanuele 20, 10123 Torino, Italy Dear Luigi, I am sending this letter via Father Rinaldi,