[Article] A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript

[ReneZ]

Sometimes the student does 100% of the work and the professor's name is really only there to help the student get a foot in the door.

Well, it is almost never the case that a student does 100% of the work. A piece of research is always enabled by the University / professor, and defined in the wider scope of on-going research. All the tuition that has been received goes into it and the work is followed up as it progresses, with reviews and further suggestions.

If a professor (or other type of tutor/manager) is co-author of a paper, it means he has reviewed it and he stands behind it. In conference papers, it is completely normal to look at the end of the list of authors to recognise who is the one standing behind it. It is of critical importance for Universities and other research institutes to have young bright people become involved, that they start contributing to progress and start publishing. In the beginning, these are "no-names" but if they are good they will become known.

Of course, in the world of Voynich publications, it is almost never like this. In the majority of cases (not all) the work is done completely outside the academic environment, by individuals. This doesn't automatically mean that it is wrong, but it clearly lacks a type of backing that would have been helpful. (In come cases to avoid embarrassing failures).