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[Jorge_Stolfi]

There are authorities in iconography, medicine, or architecture, and there are also authorities in carpentry or automotive mechanics. You either know about a subject or you don't. Of course there can be mistakes, but that does not invalidate the principle of authority.

Forte's Law of Expert Action and Reaction says "For every expert, there is an equal but opposite expert".

However difficult the Voynich manuscript may be to interpret, it is a 15th-century human creation and therefore must have an explanation.

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Whales look and swim like fish, but their biology is completely different.  The VMS looks like a typical Medieval manuscript to the extent that it is a bunch of sheets of vellum with handwriting; but it is very different in almost every other aspect.  I think that asking expert paleographers for their opinions on the VMS is like asking a fish expert for his opinions on whales. 

And, in fact, over the past 100 years, many expert paleographers who set out to study the VMS quickly gave up and left with burned hands...

All the best, --stolfi