Questions needed for Stephen Bax interview

[MarcoP]

Before the voynich.ninja, SB's blog became a forum for ideas because one was needed. At first I thought this was a good thing. I saw excellent ideas by Ellie, Marco, Worley, Zandbergen, and many other forumites posted on Bax's site.

But when I went to other sites and saw these articles being referenced and quoted, the credit was almost always given to SB, NOT to the person who wrote the articles! I saw this time and again and found it deeply troubling and was 200% supportive of the forum when it was started because I felt it was more neutral and more likely to garner credit for those who actually DID the research and took the time to post it.


I am concerned that what will happen in a video interview is what happened with the SB blog, because of the massive publicity that he has received, I'm worried that SB will summarize or quote the research of others and get credit for their ideas for the simple reason that all the publicity has put his name in the spotlight and audiences have this habit of assuming the speaker as the source.

As far as I know, Stephen Bax has always acknowledged his sources, both on his blog and in his papers.

If there are people who carelessly quote his blog failing to appropriately credit specific contributors, this is their problem, not Stephen's.

I think the problem with the Voynich community is not so much that when ideas are quoted the authors are not credited, but that bad ideas are more often quoted than good ideas.