20-12-2020, 01:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-12-2020, 01:06 PM by Mark Knowles.)
(19-12-2020, 08:37 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-12-2020, 09:57 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To be fair to Gerard he has not as yet made much effort to publicise this paper and I feel that sometimes his writings draw more attention here than they actually merit. It seems that sometimes there is nothing more attractive to some people than having a new theory to trash.
When a paper is posted on Researchgate or Academia.edu, as this one was, it is available to millions of viewers and receives significant hits on search engines.
How many people have read this article on Researchgate or Academia.edu or Lingbuzz?
Gerard Cheshire's theory is very much yesterday's news. His theory got a lot of attention when it was published in the newspapers due to him somehow getting it published in an academic journal, but since the newspapers somewhat retracted the theory his ideas have had very little traction I think.
Unsurprisingly, the newspapers, especially the tabloids don't do their homework with these kinds of stories and are happy to turn out a tale of a fascinating mystery solved to tantalise their readers. I saw an article recently in a tabloid newspaper about the Voynich which seemed to be a rehash the carbon dating results as if they were something new.