Well, at least Gerard Cheshire is not ramraiding through the Times or Ars Technica. As far as I understand he just wrote a paper and asked Koen to have a look, while Koen shared that with us.
The root of the problem is that authors in general, and evidently Mr. Cheshire in particular, who first come to the subject, do not have sufficient knowledge about the VMS research history and actual problematics, so they just repeat the most basic thing (substitution) again and again.
That can be explained by that there is no single scientific collection or source to borrow knowledge from, it's all mostly scared around the internet and disjoint. The books that have been there are now a bit out-of-date.
So, in the Voynich world, really the foremost thing to do when one wants to be up-to-date is to visit and participate in community discussions, such as comments in popular Voynich blogs, the Voynich mailing list or our forum.
The root of the problem is that authors in general, and evidently Mr. Cheshire in particular, who first come to the subject, do not have sufficient knowledge about the VMS research history and actual problematics, so they just repeat the most basic thing (substitution) again and again.
That can be explained by that there is no single scientific collection or source to borrow knowledge from, it's all mostly scared around the internet and disjoint. The books that have been there are now a bit out-of-date.
So, in the Voynich world, really the foremost thing to do when one wants to be up-to-date is to visit and participate in community discussions, such as comments in popular Voynich blogs, the Voynich mailing list or our forum.