On plain texts and ciphers (a thought experiment)

[Emma May Smith]

Although this is rehashing old arguments, I don't think anybody can say that the Voynich text is not X or not Y. We can only either offer reasons for or against, or state the assumptions we are using in our research. There won't be much movement either way unless somebody make a considerable breakthrough which renders a lot of existing knowledge void.

It is something we simply have to accept, as researchers, that others have fundamentally different views on the same object. I tend toward ignoring a lot of research which is cipher-based, but others may have different ways of dealing with it.