Many Voynich researchers are utterly sincere in their beliefs.
Unfortunately, the methodology doesn't always hold up.
Working acrostics into regular text often results in slightly stilted sentences, but that's the kind of subtlety that's difficult to judge unless one knows the language very well. I can work out words and simple sentences in a number of languages, but I would never be able to distinguish a slightly stilted sentence from a normal one in anything but English. A native speaker would be the best judge of this kind of thing.
On another aspect of their "solution"... I am a bit concerned that they have only translated about 60 words in two or three years. This rings caution bells for me because the original video showed something that was mostly a substitution cipher. If someone were using a substitution cipher to phonetically transcribe a language, even an old language, it would be possible to find many more words than that in a 200-page manuscript in three years unless something else were going on.
Unfortunately, the methodology doesn't always hold up.
Working acrostics into regular text often results in slightly stilted sentences, but that's the kind of subtlety that's difficult to judge unless one knows the language very well. I can work out words and simple sentences in a number of languages, but I would never be able to distinguish a slightly stilted sentence from a normal one in anything but English. A native speaker would be the best judge of this kind of thing.
On another aspect of their "solution"... I am a bit concerned that they have only translated about 60 words in two or three years. This rings caution bells for me because the original video showed something that was mostly a substitution cipher. If someone were using a substitution cipher to phonetically transcribe a language, even an old language, it would be possible to find many more words than that in a 200-page manuscript in three years unless something else were going on.