Except when the Carbon Dating that was done in 1988 has been conclusive proved—through both chemical, statistical, and physical analysis published in peer-reviewed journals and independently confirmed—to have been done on samples taken from a PATCHED area of the Shroud where the material is MIXTURE of original Linen and 16th Century Cotton added to the original material to repair damage.
The percentage of polluting Cotton varied between 40% and 60% of the tested sample, accounting for the previously inexplicable statistical variation in the 1988 test results that far exceeded—a spread of over 155 years—the expectations of the degree of confidence had the sub-samples all clipped from the same master sample been homogenous. Once it was found they were NOT homogenous, and not exemplar of the main body of the Shroud, the Carbon Dating done in 1988 was falsified.