hehe..notice how since no-one here can argue against the facts posited, that the focus is now on devaluing the author?
what happened to attack the idea not the author??
and did you notice that on the reconstruction of jesus from the shroud that they made him white?
He's not being a good scientist because he dismisses the most parsimonious explanation, that the image is not realistic because the people that created it made it how they thought it should look rather than how such a shroud would actually look. Refinement in perspective and anatomy would have to wait until the Renaissance.
Instead he proposes a lot of outlandish garbage that is frankly, the least likely explanation for anything ever.