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It may well be unproductive for evaluating the strength of the modern forgery theory or the current consensus, but I only asked about falsifiability.  I felt it was relevant because some of Rich's arguments require tolerating what appears to be a low level of probability.  Maybe that itself seems a less productive question, but if it is falsifiable, surely we can agree exactly how and then move on. 

I actually had a whole response to this, and thought I had clicked "Post Reply", but apparently failed to. Maybe that is good in a way, because I think I can make my point much shorter (collective sigh of relief):

Ironically, asteckley cross-posted a similar thought to mine, but from the other direction: The idea that those who already think the Voynich proven genuine have already, by doing so, declared it falsifiable.

I was looking at the other way, in that, by declaring Modern Forgery false, those who do have already admitted Modern Forgery is falsifiable. So then, why would anyone need to imagine "what Rich will say in the future", and then insert the opinion that I would (against my protests) reject any evidence? It does not matter what you think I would say, because you have already declared the Modern Forgery theory false, and therefore, declared the theory falsifiable.

An example, one of hundreds, in which Modern Forgery is declared "disproved", is in Dr. Skinner's book, "The Voynich Manuscript: The Complete Edition of the World' Most Mysterious and Esoteric Codex". In the introduction by Prinke and Zandbergen, they write,

   

"... Rich Santa Coloma has made a number of claims about the authorship of the manuscript, most of which were disproved by the dating of the vellum to the early 15th century.", and, "... before finally deciding that the manuscript was a fake fabricated by Voynich".

That statement is an absolute, declaring my theory "disproved", that is, false, therefore, falsifiable. It can't be both ways, i.e, declared falsifiable, and at the same time, unfalsifiable, based on anything... let alone, what one imagines I may or may not say in the future. It is one or the other.

Rich.