Good morning, Mr. Savage.
Among the things you are missing is that "peer-reviewed" does not mean "correct", but "adhering to minimal standards such that it is at least worth publishing".
At any rate, let's look at the clams, above.
1. X-ray fluorescence can,in fact, detect the presence of iron. However, iron is not blood, nor is blood the only substance that contains iron. In fact, cloths stained with blood, clay, and rust all show positive x-ray fluorescence for the presence of iron.
In other words, test for iron detects iron.
http://www.researchgate.net/profile...ectrometry/links/0912f5084243d04b3e000000.pdf
Strike one.
2. The "indicative spectra" obtained by microspectrophotometry are wavelengths of particular colours indicative of particular elements and compunds. Do you happen to knw
which "indicative spectra" were detected using microspectrophotometry? At best, microspectrophotometry could indicate that there were chemicals not inconsistent with blood; the test does not detect blood itself. (See iron, above.)
Strike two.
3. Porphyirin fluorescence indicates teh presence of porphyrin. As was pointed out to you very recently, porphyrin =/= blood. In fact, as was poiinted out to you recently, most organic pigments contain porphyrins. Did you read
Bright Earth yet? Until the advent of anyline dyes (~1830 CE), nearly all red and red-brown pigments consisted of porphyrins (cinnabar, and Iron(III) oxide being noteable exceptions).
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4. Hydrazine sulfate (not hydrazine) can be used to detect the presence of heme compounds, but as above, heme is not blood. There
is a hemochromogen test that is definitive for blood (the Takayama test), but it is a destructive test, and cannot be preformed without a fairly substantial sample.
http://guidedocstab.com/2011/04/what-is-hemochromogen-test-takayama-test-in-forensic-science/
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5. Cyanmethhemoglobin is a compound formed of methemoglobin (proteinaceous oxidated heme). Cyanmethemoglobin is often used to measure the amount of hemoglobin in a blood sample; however, there the substance tested is known to be blood. Cyanmethhemoglobin will form out of any proteinaceous heme compound.
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6. Bilirubin is present in blood, urine, feces...and organic pigments. This has been pointed out to you before.
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7. As often as the CIQ has been handled since its production in the mid-12th Century CE (as indicated by
14C dating), it would be astonishing if "protein" were NOT detected; however, protein is not blood.
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8. One wonders what H & A thought to achieve, exposing proteins to proteolytic enzymes. Protease does, in fact, break down proteins ("Enxyme-activated" detergent, anyone? Meat tenderizer?), but this is not limited to the proteins in blood.
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9. Another bilirubin test.
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10. Albumins are, in fact, found in human blood plasma. They are also found in egg white. Guess to what artistic use egg white is put.
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11. I have pointed out to you the problem with claiming that the "blood" stains on the CIQ show "serum rings" before. As a refresher, any dense pigment in a water-based vehicle will show retraction rings, if it is dropped (as opposded to brushed, or daubed) on an absorptive surface.
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12. Do you happen to know what "test" was used to "determine" that the "blood" was of "primate origin"? The usual antibody tests to determine whether blood is human, or animal, require samples significantly less degraded that the stains on the CIQ (should those stains turn out to be actual blood).
Ball one.
13. "Forensic judgement" just means that H & A decided that the "wound" representations looked "real enough" for their tastes. It sounds all science-y, but it has no substance.
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twelve.
It is, in fact,
possible that there is detectable human blood on the CIQ. Even were the presence of such demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, it would be blood on a 780-year-old artifact.
Have you provided the sources by which you claim the "blood" on the CIQ was serotyped, and genotyped? I would still be interested to read those.
