The Voynich Manuscript’s positional entropy collapse

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Mistakes must be called out and resolved in the right forum. Scientific discourse and review is essential to the process. I am not taking issue with that at all, however this forum is not the proper place to do that in my view. 

The correct thing is a personal note to Rod giving him the opportunity to submit an erratum to Cryptologia and a note back to Torsten apologising for the embarrassing oversight and asking for his opinion on the paper itself. If that proves unsatisfactory , then a letter to the editors at Cryptologia is usual. However what is not normal is to decry a paper based only on its citations as if it is some kind of gotcha that invalidated the entire argumentation. I would accept if Torsten argued on the substance, but focussing on this point which Rod has now clearly defended, seems to me unnecessary. 

Maybe I'm too British, but this would not seem to me to be the sporting and Gentlemanly thing to do. It is not about causing offence. No one has the right not to be offended. It is about proper discourse in the correct forum.

The wider question that should concern everyone is how did a peer reviewed paper get approved with obviously incorrect citations.  

This is the final opinion I shall offer on the matter