New Post: "I Do Listen to the Experts. Do YOU?"

[asteckley]

Not sure if it is time for a summary yet, but let me propose one.

In the short, medium, long past, many people made estimates about the age of the Voynich MS. 
They based this on various criteria.
These criteria could be studied/challenged, but this has not really been done.

Many got it wrong, some got it right (as we can now say with full hind-sight).

That's it.

That is certainly the best summary.
But we should not forget the original context and why this thread was started:

I wrote this in response to the frequent admonition that if I would only "listen to the experts", I would realize why my various ideas... and my current Modern Forgery hypothesis, are wrong.

 

I think Rich's original point here was that he has been admonished for not listening to the experts, yet he has in fact listened to them at least as much as anyone else has. Or as much as anyone can, given the amount of disagreement about who is or isn't an expert and the lack of consensus among them.

Now that I have had a chance to read through more of what Rich has said (within this thread and in previous writings), that seems to be true.  There might be a lot of things about his theory that one could debate, but the idea that he doesn't listen to the experts just isn't one of them.