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Not Deciphering The Voynich Manuscript.

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A LessWrong post compares the Voynich Manuscript to the Piltdown Man hoax, describing the Piltdown skull as a chimeric mix of orangutan and human bone fragments found in England in 1912 and presented as a transitional form.

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“The Piltdown man was the most successful artifactual hoax of all time.”
LessWrong, 11 Oct 2026, 12:47.

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