geoffreycaveney's Judaeo-Greek theory

[MarcoP]

If someone brought Ventris' entire Linear B deciphering theory to this forum today, it would be laughed out of the discussion as another bad example of the "four-steps method", or something even worse than that.

I don't laugh at the four-steps method: several people enjoy it and I understand that the frustration of being unable to read the text can be difficult to accept.

From the little I know of Ventris' work, he spent several years collecting quantitative data and his decipherment was based on something similar to Voynich labels (names of places), rather than random sentences. For obvious reasons, working on labels is something that is not contemplated by the four-steps method.
Though, as I said, I am not familiar with Ventris' work, I am not sure that comparing it to the speculations of Cheshire & friends is entirely fair.