[Blog Post] Was the Voynich text generated by using the self-citation-method?

[RenegadeHealer]

Klaus Schmeh is a blogger I’ve followed, and even back in 2014, something about his choice of words and overall vibe made me suspect he was unusually impressed with Torsten Timm’s solution. Sure enough. It’s a similar feeling to a public figure coming out as atheist; I’m not usually surprised, if it’s someone whose opinions I’ve read or heard a lot of. Unstated, but hinted at, is that Klaus has been trying to think of a way to falsify Torsten’s theory since he first published it, and is now concluding he is unable to offer a good argument against it. And that is indeed how science works — the ideas we tentatively accept as “true”, are those that withstand all efforts to knock them down.

I still want to look at Claire Bowern’s experiment’s raw data, and see it subjected to the same statistical tests as both Torsten’s code’s output and the original VMs. If Torsten is right, and the 40 student experimenters indeed did match both real and synthetic Voynich Manuscripts statistically, I’d have to say, that would go a long way to selling me on the self-citation hypothesis.