So a Jewish priest or aristocrat with Leprosy would have necessarily been wrapped in the same product from the local "Shrouds R' Us" shop as an itinerant carpenter/preacher/Messiah? Where's the logic in that? These idiot pressniks can't get their articles published unless they at least purport to disprove some article of Christian belief. Bah, Humbug.

It is difficult to evaluate the BBC report, abbreviated and generalized as it is. Although I am a skeptic of the claims for the Turin Shroud, there are, however, logical fallacies with the BBC report that may be of interest. First. there is no reaon to believe that only one particular weave of cloth was used in the region in the first century. Second, the supposed recent dating of the Turin Shroud has been sown to be based on contaminated samples and the actual dates are unknown. Third, spore and pollen samples of the Turin Shroud have been held to have Middle Eastern, not European affinities. Fourth, issues have been raised bu the analysses done by the McCrone laboratory.

The Turin Shroud never seems to lack attention and is by the fact of its fame and claims. Of course as the late Carl Sagin stated, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." But by the same logic, claims that the Shroud of Turin is not very special, does require sufficent evidence of that fact. The BBC report does not meet that standard of evidence, and the Turin Shroud remains a mystery.