The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[asteckley]

When you wrote this, I and others were explaining that, in fact, he had ample access to hundreds of thousands of books, many of them his very own. But I see you actually do agree with this level of access now, with, "It is not disputed that Voynich was an antiquarian, that is, a dealer in old, rare books and manuscripts."

Well... The problem with the claim that Voynich was an antiquarian is that it doesn’t prove anything.

I think you need to look back at why the question of his being a rare book dealer was brought up. It wasn't supposed to prove any of the claims being made about the forgery possibility. It was brought up to explain why some of the claims were plausible. Very different things.

This is the problem with people getting more fixated on discrediting someone's theory than they are on objectively evaluating it... they start to see things in the discussion that aren't there.