Classifying False Voynich Decipherment "Solutions"

[RenegadeHealer]

Implement a new classification for proposed VMs solutions: those that have passed the ninja challenge.

I had an idea for a vlog or YouTube channel modeled after Shark Tank (with a bit of Gordon Ramsay and Judge Judy), where each theorist has ten minutes to pitch their VMs theory to a panel of VMs researchers with skeptical minds and sharp tongues, who then try as hard and as entertainingly as they can to poke holes in the theory. Like the three shows I just mentioned, this would be mostly humiliation porn — people would watch it in order to see fools get put in their place, whilst trying not to cry or get angry while their beautiful brainchild gets torn apart. If at least one of the Voynich Sharks thinks the theory has enough merit to be worth exploring further, they win a brainstorming session with an expert, who gives them suggestions for what direction to take their research, and whom to approach with it.

You never know, a show like this might even get someone to come forward who has the solution, or at the very least has access to artifacts and sources of information that provide valuable clues.

I wouldn't go on a show like this as a contestant, for the same reason I don't float the wild theories that come to my imagination here on Voynich.ninja: I'm way too sensitive to sign up for the sort of dressing-down that Rene, Marco, and David regularly dish out here to flimsy theory presenters. But that's just me and my temperament; I suspect a lot of VMs theorists would not be so deterred.