The Voynich Ninja

(17-05-2019, 11:21 AM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.... it's great to have loads of punished articles by researchers. 

I like your typo.

It's interesting to see how hugely it exploded. Even though I've been neglecting my blog for a while now and I've never written about Cheshire, I got more hits today and yesterday than I usually get in a month. Many of those through Voynich Portal. Must be quite the bump in your stats JKP.

The old news ('it has been solved') is still spreading across the world.

The media tend to feed on sensationalism and mysteries like the Voynich have many readers. It's amazing how easily some people decipher it. Has already happened and will happen again. The human imagination has no limits. In art it is a great source of creation but in science it is often a source of error.

Kudos to BBC for following up with the other side of the story:

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I think in most cases, the media outlets like to avoid being the "wet blanket" on their own stories.  "Oh, our story was wrong so stop giving us those sweet, sweet views and clicks."

(17-05-2019, 11:21 AM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It went into a crappy online paid for journal that just needs to bulk out its content. There are loads of them, that will pretend to peer review - in reality it's just proof reading - before publication. 
Then the uni issued a standard press release, probably boiler plate with 'insert name here' fields, because it's great to have loads of punished articles by researchers. 
This probably happens hundreds of times a week, due entirely to the current fashion of judging researchers blindly by the number of articles they've had published. 
This one just happened to blow up in their faces!

Because I'm running a business, I constantly have to read press releases in the technology fields, and I've read press releases from UofBristol before, as well.

This didn't feel standard to me. It was hyped up more than usual—a lot of superlatives and over-the-top claims. I really wonder if Cheshire provided information to the news department (or whoever put the final version together) and they went with it. After all, he's the one claiming he came up with the solution in two weeks.

When it was still online, I was fully under the impression that he had provided the text himself.
That is what I wrote to a BBC World News reporter as well. They interviewed Lisa Fagin Davis, but I have not seen their report of this interview anywhere so far.

I thought I had downloaded the initial news release (I wanted to be sure to quote things correctly when I wrote my blog), but I can't find it on my drive. Either I gave it a funny file name or I had opened it in a browser window rather than downloading it. If I find it, I'll post it for reference.

(17-05-2019, 09:45 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I thought I had downloaded the initial news release (I wanted to be sure to quote things correctly when I wrote my blog), but I can't find it on my drive. Either I gave it a funny file name or I had opened it in a browser window rather than downloading it. If I find it, I'll post it for reference.

Quidquid latet apparebit:

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(17-05-2019, 11:21 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

(17-05-2019, 09:45 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I thought I had downloaded the initial news release (I wanted to be sure to quote things correctly when I wrote my blog), but I can't find it on my drive. Either I gave it a funny file name or I had opened it in a browser window rather than downloading it. If I find it, I'll post it for reference.

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Super Anton!

I stand by my latest comment about who may have authored this.