Re: Voynich Article

[Adams Douglas <adamsd@xxxxxxx>]

Daniel Harms wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Much as I hate to admit it, the MS. has hit the big time, but not quite
> in the way we wanted.  There was an article on the Voynich Manuscript
> published in the _Weekly World News_ for March 7, pp. 40-41.  They 
> didn't talk to Yale or any of the conventional scholars - the best they
> could do was land Mike Jay, the author of the previously-mentioned 
> Fortean Times article.  The piece reads as if his had been placed on a
> fourth-grade reading level and completely sensationalized (though
> FT is not necessarily a paragon of journalism to begin with...)

Don't feel too bad. The WWN recently won a libel suit by arguing that no
one believes what they print anyway.

-Adams

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