10-11-2025, 08:50 PM
Rich, in response to your request, I have read your rebuttal to Why the Voynich MS is not a modern fake, by René Zandbergen, and your arguments haven't convinced me at all. René's reasoning is so overwhelming that it leaves little room for doubt. Every matter related to the past leaves unresolved gaps, and I think what you're doing is sowing doubt by taking advantage of those gaps. Your way of thinking resembles that of conspiracy theories, but fortunately you don't harm anyone by thinking the way you do.
I sincerely believe that your arguments are very weak, too weak to attack the reputation of a man like Wilfrid Voynich, who, although dead, has the right to have his honor respected. There is no evidence that he forged anything, nor are there any contemporary accusations or suspicions. He was even under FBI scrutiny for espionage purposes, and his life and work were supposedly thoroughly investigated.
However, I believe you are not a fraud, that you truly believe what you say, and that driven by this passion you disregard irrefutable evidence, such as codicological and other evidence. W. Voynich was convinced that the codex was a work by Roger Bacon. If he commissioned the forgery, he would have ensured that no anachronisms remained, such as the fashion for zodiac figures, which came more than a century after Bacon. And certainly, obtaining in the 20th century the skin of 60 or 70 calves sacrificed at the beginning of the 15th century to make the codex seems like a superhuman feat.
I sincerely believe that your arguments are very weak, too weak to attack the reputation of a man like Wilfrid Voynich, who, although dead, has the right to have his honor respected. There is no evidence that he forged anything, nor are there any contemporary accusations or suspicions. He was even under FBI scrutiny for espionage purposes, and his life and work were supposedly thoroughly investigated.
However, I believe you are not a fraud, that you truly believe what you say, and that driven by this passion you disregard irrefutable evidence, such as codicological and other evidence. W. Voynich was convinced that the codex was a work by Roger Bacon. If he commissioned the forgery, he would have ensured that no anachronisms remained, such as the fashion for zodiac figures, which came more than a century after Bacon. And certainly, obtaining in the 20th century the skin of 60 or 70 calves sacrificed at the beginning of the 15th century to make the codex seems like a superhuman feat.