Agreed.
The Shroud of Turin (and its companion, the Oviedo Cloth), are fascinating precisely BECAUSE of the determined, even frenzied, efforts to disprove them as possibly the actual burial cloths of Jesus, and show them medieval frauds.
There is layer upon layer of dishonest or erroneous science that has gone into the study of the Shroud, which only later gets kicked over by better and more careful studies.
One can see in this tug of war over the Shroud the desperation that it causes in some.
At one point, the Editor of Scientific American actually wrote in a letter 'It is the policy of Scientific American that the Shroud of Turin does not exist.'
THINK ABOUT THAT for a moment!
What an astonishing statement from the chief of a scientific magazine: that a material fact of the physical world was going to be ignored completely, treated as though it doesn't EXIST!
Why would that be?
The answer is that the more one delves into the forensics of it, the more spooky and supernatural the image appears to be.
The Shroud of Turin is a threat to the skeptical mind, because the science tells us that it is, quite simply, a probabalistic miracle.
But there it is, tangible and real.