(14-12-2021, 04:32 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Criticizing such "solutions" - from either category - should not be done by people who are actually involved themselves in developing such "solutions". We can see how Cheshire criticizes everyone else, just because he "knows" that he is right.
This can only be done by people (mostly, but not exclusively, academics) who are fully aware that we are, after all this time, still in the "data gathering" stage. The recent interview of Ray Clemens is an excellent example. Lisa is another example and I know quite a few more people who are at this stage.
The problem with Cheshire is not that he is involved. The problem with him is that he doesn't know enough to say anything insightful about the Voynich manuscript.
I would even argue that to be able to criticize others it is necessary to research a subject and to get involved this way in the first place. For instance Lisa Davis has published her five scribes hypothesis. But this doesn't mean that Lisa is "too involved" to criticize other hypotheses about the same subject. On the contrary since Lisa has researched the subject I would be eager to hear what she has to say about another hypothesis.