[Movie] Voynich Talk E3: Why your Voynich theory is wrong (pt1)

[MarcoP]

What is the criteria to be used to identify the real solution? Who from the researchers will be able to tell- "This is it!"?
If they do not have the correct transliteration and alphabet, if they do not know about subject of the manuscript and all the above questions, that I have asked.

I guess it may be counter-intuitive, but the skills needed to validate a decoding are different from those needed to find a decoding.

For instance, consider You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (which involved a member of this forum).

The decoding was the result of years of software, cryptological and statistical analysis and this part of the work is quite hard to understand in detail. But everyone who reads the output of the decoding process can see that "I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me" is a totally ordinary English sentence. Going through the step by step process or replicating the decoding is a little more complex, but the decoders described it very clearly in a series of videos.

In the case of the Voynich, if the text is a ciphered natural language, the output of the decoding will be a medieval text. People who are qualified to tell if such a text is valid are palaeographers and philologists, whose job is reading ancient texts. And indeed supposed solutions that caused fake news on international media have been debunked by people like Lisa Fagin Davis, Lidia Becker, Matthew Morgenstern. But most people can read some medieval languages, so they can see by themselves when things are seriously ungrammatical, without bothering academic experts.