Expert Opinion

[Mark Knowles]

With respect, Rene, you are an expert. And in fact, you are rightly considered the premier expert on the Voynich, however one defines such a person, as you have easily the largest and most valuable corpus of knowledge on the manuscript, in addition to having uncovered much original research of your own.

Rich

Your ideas as to who qualifies as an expert on the Voynich manuscript are not my own as I stated on your thread. I don't consider Wilfred Voynich or Newbold to be experts.

I don't wish to stoke controversy or insult, but I certainly wouldn't consider Rene or anyone else including myself an expert on the Voynich manuscript. It seems in order to be an expert you would at least be able to answer with certainty who wrote the manuscript and what it says. So little is known for certain about the manuscript that I think it dangerous to regard anyone as an expert on it. One can be knowledgeable about existing research into it and debates which have taken place, but I don't think that is the same as being an expert.

In fact if you are right that it is a forgery then Rene and most other people have been completely wrong about the manuscript, which hardly qualifies them to be experts.