Valiant just read what you write some times, and look in the mirror. You would never speak to someone face to face the way you do.
I know to you this is all a sport in which no holds are barred, but when you disappear from truth it makes nonsense of all you say. It reflects badly on you and nobody else.
I know exactly how research works, and better than you.
I was a postgrad researcher , doing hush hush military stuff, cold hard logic in advanced maths and physicas. Isaw the clear problems in how the scientific process functions, and the reasons why it does not function properly.
The "old boys" club is a part of the problem, the sheer bloody mindedness on the part of the elder statesmen professors who saw their pet theories challenged, and were the peers reviewing the challengers, which is the greatest obstacle to progress as is the "filing cabinet effect" which allows all sorts of errors through. Things you know nothing about. As is the fact that there is neither grant funding for repeated science, nor will any journal publish repeats so the often stated falsehood of the old boys club will believe it "if it is repeated in a peer reviewed journal" is a way of preventing it being accepted and so on.
And so on and so forth.
But you have an attitude problem.
You discount all before even researching it superimposing the "valiant" view on what is really there. Provable. The shroud is a good example. Take the evidence for authenticity of the shroud is overwhelming. The evidence for faking is NONE. And despite all our technology now, nobody can reproduce the mark, nor say how it was produced, although UV lasers are getting similar marks. So who lent one to the faker? So it cannot be faked. It is not a painting or artwork. It is not a photograph. Both provably discountable.
You damn the researchers before even knowin who they are: atheists, even Jewish, who had a vested interest in disproving it not proving it. They were Jet propulsion Laboratory and Los Alamos scientists of the highest reputation. As Barry Shwartz has remarked since "we expected to examine it, see the brush marks, then go home. Yet now, four decades on we still cannot say what it is, we can only tell you what it is not. It is not a painting, a print or a photograph"
as those surviving will tell you, the vatican representatives were present but had no influence!
The ones who behave completely unprofessionally were the daters, and were proven so, when it turns out they dated a later repaired sample, but they did not even check the textile to know it was different from the rest. And instead of taking multiple, they took one and chopped it up. Any credible scientist would be looking to work out why the date they took disagreed with all the other science, not them, they did not even look it.
For you to remark either on the integrity of the science or those who performed it, without even knowing who they are or what they did, proves just how shallow you are.