Actually I am a scientist, I got the degrees and experience and publications to prove it. I even got congressional recognition for my scientific work but that was during the Obama administration so I don't like to count it.

The data, methods, research, and counter-research with cross-testing confirm that the shroud is a forgery.

If you think about it the odds of the shroud being real are so small that most reasonable people would be surprised if it were real,which is why it had all the testing done.

The Nuetron activation was used to locate the source of the paint.
Phytoliths are the husk or shell of pollen and plant cells. The flax the linen is made from still has those phytoliths present.
The 1978 research could not tell the difference between blood and paint, that took later technologies.

Nobody has to take my word as Gospel, I aint that special.