Let’s get this straight. You call someone a troll, and I’m the one engaging in ad hominem?
For the record, folks who write books about pyramids sharpening razor blades forfeit the expectation of being taken seriously. If this is ad hominem, so be it. The same applies to folks who claim the physical constants, such as gravity, change significantly over time.
If you have something equivalent to say about Nickell, say it.
Based on the evidence of the person's behaviour concerning their own posts, and their gleeful incitement to flamewars (note the admin mod's warning).
Based on the continual re-posting of lies, distortion, and repeated ad hominem towards PhDs and peer-reviewed literature.
Troll.
For the record, I never heard of the people writing books about pyramids sharpening razor blades, on any of the Shroud threads, until now. So I don't see how they are even relevant to the discussion.
The only way they could be relevant would be if their findings were the peg on which all hope of a 1st-century provenance of the Shroud were hung: and their work had not been duplicated independently.
And even thsn...
It would depend on if they had admitted mistakes about the pyramids, and eschewed it. Look up "polywater' sometime.
And yes, believing gravity changes is ad hominem since it does not affect any of the arguments or quoted sources on the Shroud.
Nickell is a troll -- read his article on the Shroud and it is full of Palin-Derangement-Syndrome type smears, lies, and distortions.
Cheers! If those folk