The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Mauro]

 Voynich (a master forgerer according to MFT)

Remember that the hypothesis is not that Voynich literally forged the MS all by himself. We already know that at least 5 hands were involved in writing the VMS. So it could very well be, that a group of art forgers are behind this, maybe commissionned by Voynich, maybe not. Who knows.

The evidence for the forgery hypothesis is the same, whether Voynich "did it", or some other group of people, whether it was in the 20th century or the 18th.

I wrote 'Voynich' just as a shorthand, I did not mean to imply it was him and only him. But this makes no difference: whoever, alone or with co-perpetrators, the modern forger(s) was, he(they) managed to produce ~100 years ago a very complex and detailed product which nonetheless never showed any clear evidence of being a forgery. So he/they must have been masters of forgery for the Modern Forge Theory to work, that's the point. So the foldouts are at least as weird on the MFT (a gross mistake by master forger(s) on top of no reason for adding the foldouts in the first place) as they are on the XVth Century Manuscript Theory (because foldouts are not documented from that period). At best, it's a wash. At worst, it risks to become evidence against MFT, this is my take.