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According to the McCrone Research Institute web site: "There is no blood in any
image area, only red ochre and vermilion in a collagen tempera medium.”
However, Alan Adler, an expert on porphyrins, the types of colored
compounds seen in blood, chlorophyll, and many other natural products concluded
that the blood is real. In collaboration with John Heller, the conclusions that
the blood is real was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Applied
Optics [19, (16) 1980]. The heme was converted into its parent porphyrin, and
this was confirmed with spectral analysis. In addition, the x-ray-fluorescence
spectra taken by other scientists showed excess iron in blood areas, as expected
for blood. Microchemical tests for proteins were positive in blood areas but not
in any other parts of the Shroud.
McCrone did not publish his finding in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Every
other scientist who has physically examined the fibers from the Shroud disagrees
with McCrone. His findings have not been successfully reproduced by anyone.
Walter McCrone was a world renowned microscopist.
BUT WHEN IT CAME TO THE SHROUD OF TURIN HE WAS WRONG |
The
scientific study of the Turin shroud is like a microcosm of the
scientific search for God: it does more to inflame any debate than
settle it.”
It is
simply not known how the ghostly image of a serene, bearded man was
made.”
Scientist-Journalist Philip Ball Nature, that most prestigious of scientific journals, that once had bragging rights to claim that the Shroud was fake, responding to new, peer-reviewed studies that discredit the carbon 14 dating and show that the Shroud could be authentic. WHAT WE KNOW IN 2005
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