This man is quite brilliant indeed.
https://0.academia-photos.com/72982543/18654305/18856222/s200_gerard.cheshire.jpg
https://0.academia-photos.com/72982543/18654305/18856222/s200_gerard.cheshire.jpg
News (Languages) Mystery of the Voynich manuscript SOLVED!
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Actually, that gives another point to make:
Apparently (not to be malicious) the work he did, or the basis at least, had no citations. (Perhaps not, I'm not sure of what to make of this website's information.)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerard_Cheshire/amp
Apparently (not to be malicious) the work he did, or the basis at least, had no citations. (Perhaps not, I'm not sure of what to make of this website's information.)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerard_Cheshire/amp
The *higherest!
Whoa. Take a look at this: https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/11/10/gerard-cheshire-vulgar-latin-siren-call-polyglot
He's been trying to get his "theory" published for a year and a half!
He's been trying to get his "theory" published for a year and a half!
Curiouser and curiouser: his affiliation with Bristol is through -- get this -- neuroscience. He is a "Visiting Research Associate" in a lab there: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/neuroscience/people/5537/students.html
Oh, and he's listed there as "Mr", not "Dr" -- now, maybe this is an old page and he's since gotten his Ph.D., I don't know.
Seems Bristol has pulled their official announcement. From Google:
May: Voynich manuscript | News | University of Bristol
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/may/voynich-manuscript.html
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/may/voynich-manuscript.html
1 day ago - Although the purpose and meaning of the manuscript had eluded scholars for over a century, it took Research Associate Dr. Gerard Cheshire ...
Which, if you follow the link, leads to "Page Not Found".
May: Voynich manuscript | News | University of Bristol
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/may/voynich-manuscript.html
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/may/voynich-manuscript.html
1 day ago - Although the purpose and meaning of the manuscript had eluded scholars for over a century, it took Research Associate Dr. Gerard Cheshire ...
Which, if you follow the link, leads to "Page Not Found".
But surely Cheshire's paper reaches unusual heights (or lows)? Surely...?
Don't people do post-docs?
So, they eventually noticed it was nonsense. There is hope yet.
Here's the list, if anyone is wondering: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=yros20
It seems that once that Twitter guy debunked the thing, people started taking notice.
Now I feel bad for Cheshire, if he was serious about it. He's going to be shamed worldwide. I hope I never get so delusional.... Though if I do (quod di averruncent) academia, due to my lack of titles, will not take it seriously even temporarily, so I'll be spared mediatic shame. Titlelessness has its advantages.  Tongue.gif "(1) Tongue out :p")
I think he must have been, given those posts from 2017. Yes, someone might create a hoax and try to get it published, but would they try steadily for a year and a half?
I suppose we're all at risk of it in our own way. Catullus has some words of wisdom on the subject:
XXII
Suffenus iste, Vare, quem probe nosti,
homo est venustus et dicax et urbanus,
idemque longe plurimos facit versus.
puto esse ego illi milia aut decem aut plura
perscripta, nec sic ut fit in palimpsesto
relata: cartae regiae, novi libri,
novi umbilici, lora rubra membranae,
derecta plumbo et pumice omnia aequata.
haec cum legas tu, bellus ille et urbanus
Suffenus unus caprimulgus aut fossor
rursus videtur: tantum abhorret ac mutat.
hoc quid putemus esse? qui modo scurra
aut si quid hac re scitius videbatur,
idem infaceto est infacetior rure,
simul poemata attigit, neque idem umquam
aeque est beatus ac poema cum scribit:
tam gaudet in se tamque se ipse miratur.
nimirum idem omnes fallimur, neque est quisquam
quem non in aliqua re videre Suffenum
possis. suus cuique attributus est error;
sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est.
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