11-09-2017, 09:36 PM
(11-09-2017, 01:32 PM)VViews wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am also concerned about the TLS themselves. How could they let something so flimsy get through? I can only imagine a scenario where the author has friends in the right places at the TLS, who let him publish whatever he wanted, unchecked. This is of course, seriously damaging to the credibility of the TLS's editorial process.
At the risk of sounding trite, I think the way this went viral really highlights the mediocrity and laziness of a lot of the media, who simply parrot what has been said elsewhere in the most sensationalist way possible, without any kind of fact-checking or concern for anything other than immediate clickbait value.
It's a well-treaded point but one that is still very true. What if any other field was treated only as quick click fodder in the same way? Imagine if the field of archaeology were covered by only posting individuals' Ancient Aliens type theories and never consulting actual archaeologists (implying that serious ones don't exist), and this became the new normal. Every sensationalist claim cumulatively erodes the credibility of Voynich Manuscript research, much like The Boy Who Cried Wolf.