Wow. If I remember correctly, Rogers was a pretty hard-core shroud skeptic.
Yes, he was, but he was also a real scientist, who was willing to look at the evidence, and the data, and open his mind to a different conclusion than the one he'd drawn from the 1988 test results.
We saw this show last year, and it was excellent!
You are not remembering correctly. Raymond N. Rogers was a member of STURP and a real scientist. What he stated was that when the C14 tests reported ages of 1260-1390, he accepted the findings. He was not hard core as a skeptic and many of the discoveries about the chemistry on the Shroud are his. He was a stickler when it came to the various theories about WHY the C14 tests were wrong (as was I) and would vigorously point out the failings in critiques of the various theories propounded.
He THOUGHT he would be able to experimentally prove that the two scholars, Susan Benford and Joseph Marino, non-scientists, were wrong about their theory of a medieval invisible patch in the sampled area. His tests proved just the opposite of what he thought he would prove. He proved that although the main body of the Shroud is made of Linen from the Flax plant, the area tested was a mixture of original Linen and COTTON dyed to match the original cloth.