New Post: "I Do Listen to the Experts. Do YOU?"

[Koen G]

Well to me this seems to be about how we rely on experts. It is not because someone has any PhD, that they can be relied upon to assess a medieval artefact. 

Certain herbal traditions stray very far from botanical reality. In these cases, asking the opinion of a botanist may be counterproductive.

I also don't think Rich should cherry pick from their findings. He likes that they said the plants are American, but he doesn't like that they did so in the framework of their Mexican theory.

Again though, why would the European Voynich put so many American plants in his forgery?