Ok what's this about then.
Yesterday I posted comments on blogs stating that in my opinion people have been brainwashed as far as religion goes, today I read that after a break of 5 years the Turin Shroud is to go back on view, now as I recall the item was proved to be a fake & not even the church claim it to be real, in which case case why have a million people booked to go & see it
why would anyone want to view a dirty old sheet from person or persons unknown 
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The problem is, now I'm not sure why you said what you did.
How is it related to the question Zee asked, or anything I've said?
Regarding the debris, as you no doubt noted not 1, but 3 tests, on different threads, at different times and places by different expert groups. Did all 3 labs test the same debris? I doubt it.
Being as controversial a topic as it is, the wiki page is probably one of the most tightly monitored wiki pages out there. Certainly the wiki talk and argue pages are amongst the most volumonious out there, so I present to you the wiki page on the shroud as probably being one of the most completes ones out there.
McCone, iron oxide based drawing. Gregory Paul, anatomically inaccurate, etc. LoL, note also "attested in 1390 when Bishop Pierre d'Arcis wrote a memorandum to Antipope Clement VII, stating that the shroud was a forgery and that the artist had confessed."
Maybe your question should be
Why are those who have a fake item charging people to view said fake item.
Answer might be greed,
As for the answer to your question
because they have more money than sense maybe.
It would be interesting to know if there's a booking fee, mind.
If there was a booking fee, would you then have a different view?
It also describes the shroud and it all lollks, just like the pope's speech, very non-commital.
Something just popped into my head as I was looking at the site - what if the shroud was a decorated piece of cloth prepared in anticipation of using it as some high ranking person's burial cloth?
As for their non committal description perhaps the web address is giving a clue - the_holy_shroud
A statue of Jesus, or Mary, or angels may be called a holy statue, but they are not believed to be a holy relic.
If they called the shroud a holy relic, then they'd be claiming it was the actual burial cloth of a holy person.
By calling it the Holy Shroud, all they're doing (at least technically) is saying it's an object, an icon, or a piece of artwork depicting Jesus.
" or a piece of artwork depicting Jesus. "
That's what we're discussing isn't it