Originally Posted by ATKINS

Where's the problem? This is precisely just one example of the infighting which is endemic to the peer-review process. It concerns minor adjustments to a failing theory. You are presumably aware that the very notion of "magnetic reconduction" is regarded by electrical engineers as an attempt made by non-specialists in electrical engineering to try to account for observations which their insufficient training in the field doesn't enable them to understand or accept. The case is put quite clearly here, in the Thunderbolts article "The Myth of Magnetic Reconnection".