New video: "Is the Voynich Manuscript fake?"

[ReneZ]

As a piece of interesting trivia (well, I find it interesting...)

In 1996 one of the members of the old Voynich MS mailing list: Don Latham wrote to Tom Cahill.
Tom Cahill, of the University of California - Davis, was deeply involved in the dating of the Vinland Map and the titanium analysis, as mentioned among others here:
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Don was wondering if Tom could be interested into doing a dating analysis on the Voynich MS. There
is a response from Tom Cahill dated 20 March 1996: (minor typos removed)

Very interesting! But if I so much as show my face around the Beinecke, they will call 
in the Yale SWAT Team. Did you catch that bizarre scene on NPS where Phyllis asked 
to see the Vinland map? The Beinecke people would not so much as open their mouths.
This is all the more ridiculous since they insure the VM at $24,000,000., so they have 
"voted with their pocket book" for possible authenticity.

As for this manuscript, it looks like a worthy project, but a large
undertaking since there would have to be many comparisons with other
documents. We do have some of these already, but I could not take the
lead on such a matter. Bruce Kusko, my former project manager, was forced to
take a job in Kansas. And what could we say? That it does (or does not) look
like other manuscipts of the period? Clearly, it is old, so the question of
a 20th century forgery (as proposed for the VM) is not a question.

On a side note, Don's questions to Tom included some 'wish items'  like having the
Voynich MS images on a CD, having a good quality coffee table book and dating the
costumes in the MS.
We've come quite a long way since then.