13-03-2026, 10:41 AM
If this is true and can be expanded to the whole manuscript, it would certainly be problematic for some theories...
While this particular point is exactly what I would have expected, I think we should also be cautious with overanalyzing every new thing Barabe says, however speculative. Here, he basically said that he has a 50%+ suspicion that the inks were "basically out of the same group of batches". What does that even mean?
It would be great news if he is able to retrieve the samples and do additional tests. But currently, we are in a stage of selectively listening to what the man has to say about decade-old research.
He has restated that he sees no indications of modern pigments. Why isn't that the end of it then?
While this particular point is exactly what I would have expected, I think we should also be cautious with overanalyzing every new thing Barabe says, however speculative. Here, he basically said that he has a 50%+ suspicion that the inks were "basically out of the same group of batches". What does that even mean?
It would be great news if he is able to retrieve the samples and do additional tests. But currently, we are in a stage of selectively listening to what the man has to say about decade-old research.
He has restated that he sees no indications of modern pigments. Why isn't that the end of it then?