In the category of "things that make you want to clunk your forehead on your desk", Janick just won an award for
Flora of the Voynich Code:
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According to Kenneth Teng, editor for Springer, this is the first and only publication to fully identify all plant species from the original Voynich manuscript, a feat which significantly fortifies the assertions Janick and Tucker made in “Unraveling the Voynich Code.”"
I want it to be clearly on record that I was appalled when I read chunks of the Janick and Tucker books (I didn't buy them but there were fairly extensive previews on Google Books).
Not only were there many outright factual errors and typographical errors that should have been caught by editors (I documented some of these on the forum and on my blog), but the logic behind many of the assertions is, to my mind, appallingly bad (I documented some of this, as well).
I don't know who Kenneth Teng is in terms of academic background, but he apparently doesn't know much about plants (and I don't care if he turns out to be a botanist or a horticulturist or someone with 24 PhDs, it's the knowledge, and logic and the method that matters in this, not the initials, and the logic behind many of the plant IDs in the Janick Tucker book is extremely questionable).
I'm usually happy for people when they win awards, but all this does is cheapen the award, and my opinion of certain publishers that I used to respect.