[Alberta's Child]

He said experiments on cadavers carried out by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages have shown that people hanging with nails through their hands will fall to the ground within a relatively short time, pulled by gravity.

This is exactly what has led many people to believe that the Shroud of Turin is, in fact, authentic -- because people hanging with nails through their wrists will not fall to the ground in this manner.

If the Shroud were truly a fake, then the person who created it would have sought to maintain an air of authenticity by showing wounds that were consistent with what every artistic rendering of that era had showed -- which was a crucified Christ with nails through the hands.

[AmishDude]

What you say, though, is profoundly strong evidence that the Shroud is not a purposeful fraud. But it does not prove that it was Christ's shroud.