"Half of the blood stains are false": new study on the Shroud

"The bloodstains on the Shroud of Turin are false, except for those in correspondence with the hands, which may be plausible, the others seem more the result of artistic brushstrokes."

a new study on the relic kept in Turin led by Luigi Garlaschelli, chemist of the Italian Committee of Control of Assertions on Pseudoscience (Cicap) and Matteo Borrini, forensic anthropologist of the University of Liverpool, authors of a study published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences

Garlaschelli has studied the mystery of the Shroud for years, to such an extent that in 2009 he made a perfect copy of it and was Author and guinea pig experience. Both reconstructed the formation of spots on the sacred flax leaf using " techniques at Csi ". " Through the badysis of blood splashes, we have shown that almost all the Shroud spots are not compatible with any position of the human body, neither crucified nor supine in the sepulcher ," recounts Garlaschelli at the agency Agi " We did various tests on my body and using a manikin and we have no doubt that the stains are more like brush strokes than drops of blood ". "A bag of blood was tied to my arm and through a cannula we bleed blood on the back of the hand," says the scholar, " I've moved the arm from different angles, and it appeared that, while the corresponding spots on the back of the hand might be probable (even if on the test sheet they are lighter than those of the Shroud), the droplets of blood that should have fallen from forearms should not They are vertical to the head as they are on the sheet ".

Doubts also about the spots in correspondence of the thorax and the lumbar region. "The first in the Shroud is too big to be plausible," badures the expert, " The second is even more unrealistic.It is believed that the blood belt in the lumbar region is due to the blood that s & # 39; 39, flows death, when the body was lying in the sepulcher Our tests on a manikin, on the other hand, show that if it was the case the blood stain should not be in correspondence with the kidneys , but in the region of the scapula . 19659002] In short, "the Shroud is too good to be true," concludes Garlaschelli.