Unraveling the Voynich Codex

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If they don't like being contradicted by non-botanists, why are they standing by their identifications of crayfish, fish and cats? They are botanists, not fish and cat experts. They can't have it both ways.

Of course I agree with your and everyone else's objections to this work, but I can add that the animal identifications are primarily based on the work of a Purdue wildlife zoologist.

That is really scary. It makes you wonder how much "scholarly" work that has been published is based on similar suppositions.

What did they do, go to the zoologist and say, "We have determined that this is a New World publication. Could you please confirm our wildlife identifications?" or did they say, "Here are some drawings, can you identify anything here?" The way questions are asked often influences the answer.