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

[Mark Knowles]

Rene Zanbergen, Lisa Fagin-Davis, and Richard SantaColomo have all been consulted as experts on the manuscript.

All sorts of people have been consulted on the manuscript, but I think it very doubtful that many of them could be called experts, so that seems to me to be a poor criteria for being called an expert. (I base this on having seen a few Voynich documentaries and other things.)

To me an expert is someone whose opinion I can put my trust in. I think it is perfectly possible for someone to be trustworthy on a specific topic related to the Voynich, but in terms of a general understanding of the Voynich manuscript there is nobody I feel that I can put my trust in as there are so many basic questions that I cannot be confident that they have the correct answer to.

There are certainly people who are knowledgeable regarding the history of Voynich research up until now, but I hesitate to call them experts on the Voynich manuscript itself.