Ideas for Moving Voynich Research Forward

[ReneZ]

I hesitated to add to this discussion. Is it possible that part of the reason we're not seeing more research and more discoveries on the VM is that the research is being done deliberately away from the public forums?

I have no doubt that the vast majority of work and research related to the Voynich MS is done outside of the public forums. I am also quite sure that this has been the case for many, many years, and it has just been gradually increasing since the 1990's, when the Voynich mailing list was the single representative of Voynich MS research.

The list of memorable publications coming 'out of nowhere' is very long. Much longer than any results coming from active forum participants.

More generally on this topic, I am not so sure that there is any slow-down. It has always been slow, and valuable new insights have always been incidental. It is becoming more and more difficult to fully grasp all the available results and statistics, and to build onto them, and possibly there is significant progress, but it is not fully recognised.