[Movie] Is the Voynich Manuscript an Elaborate Medieval Hoax?

[RenegadeHealer]

Hermes777, your rationale for investigating Nicholas of Cusa reminds me a lot of the technique I was taught in my training for chasing a diagnosis on a patient with ambiguous signs and symptoms. Make a table with a column for each of the 3~5 most prominent signs of symptoms. For each of these, individually, list the 5~10 most common and likely health problems that cause that sign or symptom, in descending order. Typically at he end of this magic spell, one diagnosis will appear near the top of all the lists. That one has a very good likelihood of being the right diagnosis, and deserves the bulk of your attention and workup, until and unless it can be ruled out. Intersecting lines, essentially. R. Sale, a long-time contributor here, has used a similar exercise in intersection to investigate a [different] narrow range of people. I support this method.

To everyone else, and to Torsten’s credit, I think it bears repeating my view that the VMS’s meaninglessness is the null hypothesis. It is meaningless to all apparent beholders both now and historically documented, and it is meaningless to all until proven otherwise. This is Emma’s scenario number 2, as I understand it. It’s not profound. It’s banal.