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...that certain practitioners may not have the most principled of intentions. It is important to be critical and cautious when evaluating the efficacy of these therapies. At the same time, if one professes loyalty to the rigorous standards of modern science, one cannot dismiss novel alternative treatments as fake without first subjecting them to serious scientific scrutiny. Everyone involved must keep an open mind and resist the tendency to summarily reject alternative treatments which may initially appear strange, startling or implausible...
...Middle Ages, of course, were salad days for relics, real and fake (churches in Constantinople and Angeli boasted heads of John the Baptist), and as the centuries rolled on, bits of the True Cross or Our Lady's shoe faded from prominence within their gilded reliquaries. What catapulted the shroud into its role as a modern touchstone was the testimony of a thoroughly modern invention: the camera. On May 28, 1898, a city councillor named Secondo Pia took the first photographs of the relic. One scholar recounts that as the negative image began to appear in his darkroom, Pia "nearly...
BUCKING THE ODDS "If it were proved fake tomorrow, it wouldn't shake my faith," says Ian Wilson from his home near Brisbane, Australia. "The fact that it might have touched the body of Christ doesn't move me at all. It's just knowing that the image exists. I would be as interested in a 14th century cloth if I could find the artist who made...
...where its modern history begins. The time line, of course, contradicts the 1988 results. "All this inevitably gives rise to the question," Wilson writes in his new book, "Can anyone any longer be quite so sure of radiocarbon dating's claim 'conclusively' to have proved the shroud a medieval fake?... Is it not time, now, to look just a little more critically at the technique's own credibility...
...imprison her, conventions that define heras wrong and prevent her from constructing anidentity of her own so that she might be moreeasily be made to serve. For Harlan, theestablished definitions of truth and realitythreaten to deprive her of her humanity ascompletely as her Grandmother's humanity wasobliterated by the fake turtle shell...