Bless you for a reasoned post on this thread; and the use of facts instead of ridiculous assertions.
Only one slight problem... they aren't facts.
They are made up hogwash from a skeptical magazine, and not from peer-reviewed science. They aren't true.
Those "facts" are demonstrably false. . . and fly in the face of work done by true scientists who are experts in their fields.
They were published by a failed stage magician who's expertise is that he has a degree in English Literature, quoting journalists and others with similar expertise. He has NO HANDS ON TIME with the shroud at all. His measurements are twaddle. Nothing more.