Revisiting A Voynich Prize

[Mark Knowles]

My fear remains that a monetary prize would simply increase the amount of Cheshires, people who get their solutions published through dubious means and defend it aggressively.

I think it would increase the number of Cheshires, but I also think it would increase the number of genuine researchers. However I think that many other, but not all, prizes can face the same problems. This is not and cannot be a problem unique to the Voynich. I think that perhaps what we need is better procedures to handle the Cheshires, so that they present much less of a problem.