Well Pete, your 'explanation': "these results however are given in an interpretive framework that assumes there are no other conditions that may affect the result. as the sample tested is old and obviously not recovered from controlled lab conditions there may well be other factors contributing to the result." is just simply labored obfuscation ....which you have gotten from people like Ham, who begins, as you do, with the notion that any lab results that contradict scripture MUST be flawed.
Very highly paid defense attorneys try to convince juries that their clients (whom everyone is sure are guilty) 'might' be innocent because some lab sample 'might' have been touched inappropriately by someone and 'might' have been contaminated. In legal matters, they don't have to be right about such speculations.... all they have to do is convince one or two jurors to vote their way!

I'm sorry Pete, but there are many, many, many more reasons to accept the radiometric readings than to reject them. But you are like that juror the clever lawyer needs to plant one seed of doubt in... you vote for what someone wants you to, or because you like the defendant. (In our famous O.J. Simpson murder case, 2 jurors admitted afterward that they had decided at the beginning they were NOT going to find him guilty, no matter what evidence was presented!)

If you cared to, you could find scientific explanations that clarify ALL the supposed dino DNA and mixed rock issues. I suppose I could too, but you'd just re-quote Ham or creation.com and tell me... again... of the same problems that are ONLY seen by the .001% of scientists who are willing to rhetorically twist data and lab results to suit their beliefs.

Pete... unlike 'certain' persons here, I don't question your honesty, but I am amazed at the way you cling to stuff that so few believe. You can have God and very old Earth too....(many Christians do!) you are just caught in this circular reasoning. You told me once(I've lost track of the thread) that you didn't originally believe that way, but were 'convinced' or 'educated' by a certain group. They may have given you comfort in some ways, but they took away a basic understanding of how we really process & analyze data.... it is really unfortunate.