Have we ruled out simple substitution unwisely?

[eggyk]

The thread title "Have we ruled out simple substitution unwisely?" implies a judgement (unwise) on those who rule out simple substitution (people like Marco, myself and many others). So this is the rebound of that. But let's remain friendly.

The first sentence of the OP states quite clearly that the thread was not to propose well thought out solutions but was to discuss and check the working assumptions around this issue. Note that I never stated that the current methods ARE wrong, but just called to discuss whether they could be. I really thought I made this clear in the OP, over and over again? 

Unfortunately I can't change the title now. I wasn't intending to call the entire Voynich research community unwise or to call their compounded efforts wrong, or to insult anybody. You guys know more than I do by a long shot and I don't pretend otherwise for a second. 

My answer to your question is this: we have ruled out simple substitution through the compounded efforts of many dedicated researchers. But you will only accept this when you experience it for yourself. So once again I encourage you to run some experiments and report on what you found.

Yes, well again unfortunately the title I chose wasn't exactly reflective of the discussion I was trying to create (which was more about the accepted entropy values/entropy problem when discussing the VMS and solutions such as basic substitution) I'm not looking to be convinced whether simple substitution is or isn't a viable solution. I'm looking to be convinced that nothing has been missed in the assumptions that lead to its dismissal.