Expert Opinion

[Hermes777]

Experts are people you consult

In practice, in my opinion, serious researchers usually investigate details (individual aspects) of the VMS without asking overarching (meta-) questions. 

It is exactly in the department of overarching meta questions that Voynich studies fails so spectacularly. Researchers do good work, gather stats, trawl over manuscripts etc. and rightly it is not part of their craft to contemplate metaquestions. But then, in response to this fine work, you have people asking "So, could this be connected to Atlantis?" That's the quality of the meta questions in this game! The solution is better, more intelligent, more contextual, more considered, more useful metaquestions that help give the flood of data some structure.