New video: "Is the Voynich Manuscript fake?"

[Koen G]

Diane pointed out to me that I should have included Panofsky and in retrospect I think she's right. The reason why I omitted a lot from my initial draft is that I wanted to limit the length of the video: it is much better that the audience watches 90% of a compact video, than 30% of a comprehensive one.

We only have a few brief and relatively informal statements from Panofsky about the VM. Upon first seeing the actual MS, he was basically spot on: 1410-1430. Note that my preferred range as expressed in the video fits within Panofsky's initial assessment: 1410-1425. So this could have been added to strengthen my point. 

I didn't though, because for some bizarre reason, Panofsky then decided to change his opinion to something much more vague, explicitly influenced by botanist O'Neill's sunflower. I could not have added all this to the video without making it 10 minutes longer and that was not possible (I also scrapped a whole bunch of other things). 

I frankly do not understand why Panofsky had good intuitions at first, but then decided to go along with the sunflower fantasy. Diane believes that certain societal factors were at play, which is certainly a possibility. But I simply don't know.