The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[asteckley]

... it looks like you're trying to pull a fast one here. The origin of the Voynich MS is not being derailed. What is being derailed are the posts of other forum members who intend to write about their own subjects and this gets dragged into other directions. While this will frequently happen to some extent, I applaud the efforts to limit this. 

This is not at all specific to the 'Voynich faked it' theory. The rules that were put in place were triggered by other theories that kept derailing discussions.

In the particular case that launched all this, however, the rule you applaud was NOT being violated at all. And the rule being claimed was not the one you are referring. It was clear that a morphed rule was being applied anyway though, because of the particular theory that was perceived to be threatening a derailment (of, in effect, the putative origin theory of the Voynich MS).  This was all described elsewhere ... in the now severed thread.

And I believe (though I can't speak for him) that that is why Rich referred to the "1420 Genuine European Cipher Herbal" not being able to withstand criticism -- because that appears to be the motivation for the misapplication of the, otherwise, laudable rule.