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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience
In reply to the discussion: Scientists say Turin Shroud is supernatural [View all]uriel1972
(4,261 posts)24. It's a fraud, or a hoax might have been better wording,
but it was pretty clear that they didn't mean the shroud wasn't real in the sense of being a real object.
As for the Catholic Church, well they don't need to say it's a miracle thingy, plenty of people are doing it for them. They just have to sit back and bask in the money... er glory of their shroud.
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So, because these "scientists" can only copy it using high-intensity ultra violet lasers,
mr blur
Dec 2011
#4
I once heard, the image was probably created with chemicals: a photography of a male model.
DetlefK
Dec 2011
#6
these "scientists" are funded by someone much like the "Discovery Institute",
AlbertCat
Dec 2011
#10
I suppose next you'll tell me that the Mayan ruins are "fake" because the deities to whom they were
AlbertCat
Dec 2011
#17