There was a totally, absolutely botched Carbon-14 test about 25 years ago. The cloth they tested wasn’t even part of the Shroud. The press, of course, trumpeted that the Shroud had been “proven” to be a “painting.” (Never mind that a Carbon-14 test can’t say ANYTHING about whether something is a “painting.” A Carbon=14 test can’t distinguish between the Mona Lisa and Leonardo’s finger.)
People who cling to the Carbon-14 test as “proof” of anything are intellectually dishonest.
Or so the story goes -- now.
At first there more than a few "other scientists" who had come up with various theories to explain (and explain away) the carbon14 results.
And that is an aspect to this line of inquiry which is indisputable fact.
Never claimed it was proof. I was just an interested outsider, who remembers reading about the conventional thinking at the time. Didn't dream I was invoking some kind of angry response.
Excuse me for being curious.