Unraveling the Voynich Codex

[Anton]

The historian of medicine Alain Touwaide has spoken out against them on several occasions, saying that they lack the necessary historical expertise. Their response is that they don't care about Alain's opinion because he is not a botanist.

This is a fundamentally flawed approach, which, quite surprisingly, is quite spread among professionals. A botanist is a person who specializes in botany. In such capacity, s/he is summoned by society to address the society's needs in the knowledge of botany, including questions and opinions of those who are not that proficient in botany, and to resolve those inquiries in a professionally fair manner, not to be deaf to them. A professional who is not able to receive critique and recognize his mistakes is probably not a very professional person (sorry for the tautology).