L. E. Joiner is not alone in wondering why *any* discussion of cometary interaction with solar plasma / electrical fields remains verboten within mainstream circles. Even if the posited mechanism is not “real,” the plasma hypothesis explains so much observed behavior — as in the case of 3I/Atlas — that is not adequately explained by standard theory that it is worth a look. As always, the observed anomalous data is “telling” us something, even if we do not know quite what it is.

And, no, you do not have to “believe in” Velikovsky’s theory that Jupiter coughed up Venus like a giant hairball to terrorize the ancient Egyptians and sundry other civilizations of that era in order to think that such large scale electrical phenomena might exist.