Assumptions baked into the VMS carbon dating

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I wrote an entire intro dedicated to clarifying that I have no issue with how carbon dating is carried out.

PS: My response wasn't intended as a criticism of your initial post, which I thought was well explained and objectively open - I should have been clearer. It was a more general critique of the growing habit these days of dismissing expertise (which extends way beyond our subject area here).