New video: "Is the Voynich Manuscript fake?"

[zachary.kaelan]

But Rene -- it is precisely BECAUSE the presence of anatase would have been such a major find and everyone involved knew it (presumably), that we would expect their report to be particularly specific on details regarding titanium compounds!  They would go out of their way to be explicit on whether it did or did not contain anatase, or if they were simply unable to identify that fact one way or the other.

The titanium was found in the writing ink, and we can all clearly see that the writing ink isn't white.

But O'Neil actually told us that, "The most startling identification… …was folio 93, which is quite plainly the common sunflower.

A sunflower has petals. The flower on folio 93 clearly doesn't. It looks more like a mushroom than a sunflower.