[Conference] Voynich conference!

[Mark Knowles]

As I wrote on Twitter, Torsten, each submission was double-blind reviewed by three qualified members of the Committee, and anyone who could work out who the author was recused themselves from reviewing the submission.

Even then isn't there a risk that those who review the submissions could have a particular perspective on the Voynich manuscript and therefore have a bias towards submissions that reflected their own perspectives. If the inclination of the committee members was that the approach that Torsten favours was wrong they could have had a bias against someone advocating that approach.(I have no dog in that fight as I have made no such submission to this committee, although I have recently presented to a conference on historical cryptography.)