Joe Nickell is a Senior Research Fellow with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and author of "Inquest on the Shroud of Turin".
Unwrapping the Shroud Again
1 November 1999
New claims that pollen grains on the Shroud of Turin link it to pre-eighth-century Jerusalem were made in August by researchers at the International Botanical Congress in St. Louis. In fact, the claims are based on earlier, scientifically discredited data.