Is it healthy to try and solve the MS 408

[Mark Knowles]

I don't really see the Voynich as something that actively destroys lives (I don't know of any examples myself, but I'm sure there are some). It's just one of the ways people can show their willingness to improve their critical thinking. If uncle Robert hadn't developed a crazy Voynich theory, maybe it would have been anti-vax rants instead. Or something about aliens. Or some conspiracy theory.

Newbold was clearly destroyed by the Voynich.
Brumbaugh could have destroyed his career with it.
I think there are arguably quite a number of other people whose lives have been damaged by their Voynich obsession.

Whatever one might think of Gérard Cheshire's theory or Ahmet Ardic's theory or any others I think it unfair to compare them with crazy alien conspiracy theories.