[crypto-jeronimo]

The following excerpts score quite high on my BS meter:

- "Although the purpose and meaning of the manuscript had eluded scholars for over a century, it took Research Associate Dr. Gerard Cheshire two weeks,"

- ""I experienced a series of 'eureka' moments whilst deciphering the code"

These two alone much more to discredit the "preliminary" claims than any of the remaining arguments in favor of the "discovery".

[pvitz]

It amuses me that this passed the editor and the peer review process:

"So, from De Rosa’s manuscript we understand just why manuscript MS408 is so dominated by female issues, activities and adventures and why so few images of men appear. The only males in the citadel were the abbot, celibate monks and young boys, leaving the women and girls sexually and emotionally frustrated, so they amused and distracted themselves whilst they waited and yearned for male attention to return. They must have jumped at the chance of an adventure when the volcano erupted in 1444, as the citadel would have felt like a gilded cage by then."

[fatnoah]

Might as well throw this quote on the pile of things that sets off the BS meter, too: "...using a combination of lateral thinking and ingenuity..."