That seems almost perverse, that the dating scientists even picked the wrong place to get a piece. Someone who understood the shroud’s history ought to have guided them, and still even could.
I think the alleged Sister who did the clippings said she did not want to desecrate the actual shroud, thus chose what was obviously NOT a part of the shroud. The scientists did not select the portion for the sample.
“That seems almost perverse, that the dating scientists even picked the wrong place to get a piece. Someone who understood the shroud’s history ought to have guided them, and still even could.”
If you had a patched blanket, the patch was visible, and you were told not to collect your sample from the patch, I have every confidence that you could manage.
How is it possible that they could not? I don’t know what to think other than they deliberately collected their sample from the patch.
The sampling protocols were in place and deliberately AVOIDED that site. . . but those protocols were tossed out at literally the last minute and the single sample was taken from the worst possible spot, the one the scientists who had examined the Shroud for 78 hours all unanimously agreed should NOT be a candidate for C-14 testing because It had physical and chemical differences from the rest of the Shroud. This was deliberate.